Better Way to Assign Master Pages?

[Bernard Gagne]

Hi Karen,
As I understand it, only paragraph tags in the main flow (body pages) can be used to map Master Pages. Anything in the Headers and Footers is ignored.
If that is what you are trying to do, then you will need to change your tactics. Try mapping to the paragraph tags used for the runing head text instead. You are using variables, right?
Best regards,
 
Berny Gagne
Sr. Technical Writer
Thinkpath Engineering
Toronto, Ontario


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From: Karen Robbins <karendesign at gmail.com>
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:06:59 PM
Subject: Better Way to Assign Master Pages?

Hello Framers,

Is there in Frame 9 a quick (or at least efficient) way of assigning a master page to multiple body pages at once?

I am dumping text from one Frame doc into another that is essentially a galley proof--one text frame with changing running heads based half on heading tags and half on other content.

Applying a master page to a range of body pages (or all pages) in the Master Page Usage dialog would take care of only a portion of my document at best, since the running heads often change every page and often are not consecutive. I tried mapping a master page to a heading tag in the Master Page Maps reference page, but that doesn't seem to work: once I manually apply a master page, the reference page setting for "until changed" appears to function, but the master associated with the heading isn't being applied automatically in the first place. Maybe I don't understand the operation of the Master Page Maps table?

I am wishing for something like QuarkXPress' Page Layout palette, where one can click-and-drag a master page icon onto a page or group of page icons to apply.

Hope I've just forgotten something simple--very possible since I only do this project once a year. I don't look forward to applying master pages manually hundreds of times.

Thanks,
Karen
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