SOLVED: Adding 11x17 Master Page into a file in a book

[Alison Craig]

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

My friend says he has enough info to deal with his issue.

Alison




Alison Craig
Lead Technical Writer

604-279-8550 x127 | fax 604-279-8559
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation | www.ultrasonix.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com]
Sent: June 23, 2011 2:10 PM
To: Tim Pann; Alison Craig; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Adding 11x17 Master Page into a file in a book

Tim Pann wrote:

> I asked the same question recently and was told it can't be done -
> changing all Master Pages to the new page size is the appropriate
> behavior. The suggested workaround was to generate a book and create a
> new file containing the different page size, and modifying page
> numbering etc. to create continuity across the book.
>
> If David Spreadbury's suggestion works then that renders the advice I
> got incorrect.

Actually, David's suggestion is exactly the same, merely stated differently. The key phrase from his post is "insert the 11x17 page as a component of the book." A component of a book is a file, so David was trying to say use a separate file for the 11x17 page.

As someone else pointed out, you can't mix page sizes in a file. But you can mix page sizes in a book easily enough by using different files for each page size.

So it's not that it can't be done, and it's not that you have to resort to a "workaround." It works as designed; the "workaround" is the way it's _supposed_ to work. Adding a new file to the book and setting its numbering properties is trivially easy.


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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