(FM 9) layout for die-cut side tabs with text?

[Bill Swallow]

By your description, I assume the chapter pages will be card stock and
not the normal paper the rest of the book will be printed on, so the
tabs won't tear upon first use. What I would do is use a different
template for the chapter pages, and manually control the pagination of
the content pages rather than continuing numbering from the previous
file. I'd lay the die-cut template out so the tab is within the "page"
region, and refine the crop lines.

All that said, I am curious about why you want to take this overly
complicated approach.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Edmondson, Becky
<bedmondson at ahurascientific.com> wrote:
> We want to create a doc with manila-folder-style tabs on the chapter headers. The tabs are to be a solid color and have some text on them.
>
> I know how to create bleeding tabs and  how to size and position the graphics box to allow for the die-cut trim. My problem is figuring how to get the text placed on the part of the tab that projects outside of the FM page edge. I put the text in a table, inside of a textbox, inside of the graphics box, and then rotated the table. So far so good. But Frame resists every effort to move it outside of the page. Partially moving the text box off the page, so that the bottom of the box is visible on the page, doesn't work.
>
> I am truly stumped. Can't find anything on the web about this. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> --Becky

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