InDesign Page Numbering Help!
kvn_m (5 pencils) | Thu, 2008-04-10 07:07Hi,
I'm aware of the Numbering & Section feature of InDesign... but I still have quite a bit of a problem.
Well, I want to have my first-page as the cover page, so the pages will actually begin on the 2nd page.
But herein lies the problem. When I change my 2nd page to start the section as the 1st page, it will automatically arrange itself in the spread on the right side, even though it should be on the left side of the book.
Is there a workaround for this? Can I change so that my 2nd page will be counted as the 1st page, and that it will display on the left side of the spread?
Thanks
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1. Create a document in InDesign with "Facing Pages" checked
2. Add three pages in the "Pages" palette
3. Select both "Page 2" and "Page 3" in the palette (make sure to highlight both of them)
4. Click on the fly-out menu or Control click (on Mac) on the selection for options
5. Select "Keep Spread Together"
6. Select "Page 2" on the "Pages" palette
7. Set "Numbering and Section Option" as you had
Voila, page 1 stays on the left hand spread.
If you have CS3 step 5 will be different.
On the flyout you uncheck "Allow selected spread to shuffle'.
All the other steps stay the same
with facing pages turned on, wouldn't you want to show the blank back side of the title page anyway? technically you should make the 3rd page in the document page 1 with a new section and have the cover page be front/back two pages.
the steps above will work, but they're really kludges to work around the fact that you're not quite setting up your document properly. if you use those workarounds, then try to print double sided, your page spreads will all be off, with your odd pages on the left and even pages on the right.
if you're not working double sided, then you shouldn't be in facing pages mode anyway, since you won't have spreads, and that problem won't happen.
I agree with gwells. You really should not begin your text pages on the back of the cover. There are publication conventions that you should learn and follow; InDesign is following them, which is why you're running into trouble.
If, for some reason, you MUST flip off convention in this case, I know that Quark allows you to start the numbering in a new section with anything you like. Doesn't InDesign let you do that, too? If so, make the cover and its verso be the first section, unnumbered (because covers and first pages are never numbered), then create a new section for the rest of the pages with the numbering starting at 2.
Mara