Tables on spreads

[Stuart Rogers]

On 16/05/2012 3:43 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> At 15:35 -0400 16/5/12, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>
>> I have another workaround, involving cross-referencing and
>> cropping; if yours doesn't work, let me know and I'll provide more
>> details.
>
> Stuart, thanks. Mine sort of doesn't work, in that I get ok PDF but
> cannot find a (Mac) printer option that does what I want, which is
> 'print one page on two sheets'. Lots of options to do the opposite,
> i.e. print two/many pages on one sheet. So please post your other
> workaround.
>

OK, here goes.  I did try this once several years ago for someone who 
was asking the same sort of thing; I haven't used it myself in a 
production document.  It's cumbersome to set up and maintain, but might 
work for you.  (And I see now that I used text insets, not x-refs.) Page 
sizes are in North American terms; interpret to suit your national 
conventions :-)

Create the table on an 11x17 landscape layout in its own file.

In your working file, on a left page, create an anchored frame the same
size and position as your text frame.  Within it, create a text frame of 
the same dimensions and position.  Put the insertion point in that text 
frame and import the table file as an inset.  You now have the left half 
of your table on a left page, cropped by the anchored frame.

Repeat the process on the following right page.  Select the imported 
table on that page and set its Alignment in the Table Designer to Right. 
  (This is an override; just Apply, don't Update All.)  You now have the 
right half of the table on a right page, cropped by the anchored frame.

Obviously, you'll have to do some playing around with a central table
column with no borders or content, to accommodate the book's gutter.
Also, the autonumbering, if it exists, will increment on the right page. 
  You might have to fake the table numbering for your TOC by putting a 
titled empty table above the real one, and autonumber the real one with 
its own series label that is not used elsewhere, so as not to disrupt 
the numbering of other tables in the book.

HTH,

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Stuart Rogers
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