Comments on: Fixing Overset Auto Page Numbers

By: Branislav Milic

Branislav Milic — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:36:15 +0000

Yes indeed.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:30:20 +0000

I just did as Bob (originally Gerald) said: clicked the in port and then clicked the pointer tool in the tool bar. That worked for me.

Dave

By: Branislav Milic

Branislav Milic — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:41:24 +0000

It is not necessary to create a thread of text frame.

1. Click the In port
2. Create a very thin text frame to the left of the text frame containing the number
3. Delete the frame you just created, it works.

By: Omar Brea

Omar Brea — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:07:25 +0000

Thanks, it’s best.

I’m feel good with this tutorial, thanks again

By: Maciej Przepióra

Maciej Przepióra — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:37:57 +0000

Well, I happened to see similiar behaviour some time ago, when I set a book with zillions of footnotes. Sometimes, InDesign could not set a page until I clicked on out-port of last good looking frame in the chain; it was ok just to click on the port, I didn’t have to draw frame. Strange, but probably this forces ID to recalculate text flow. Bug?

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:30:01 +0000

Two ways I’ve combatted this in the past:

1. Draw an line, set it to zero pt and type on it, it can be any lenght, so make it long enough to fit all the numbers you’re ever going to need.

This way it won’t affect the size and of course it will fit many numbers

2. Insert the text into a table, great for variables too.

When the font increases in size, so does the cell. Tables are not confined to text boxes and they give you overset text too.

For variables, the table option is much better because the variable doesn’t get squished when the cell fills with text, picked up by the variable. Instead it gives and overflow, which is better than having squished text, at least you get a warning.

All in all, it’s a great tip for text boxes, because I have to admit, I only resort to the two options above when things in text boxes go wrong, now I have another option to add to that.

Thanks

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:20:54 +0000

I’ll just stick to making the frames big enough to easily fit the number of digits I expect to need.

By: Jochen Uebel

Jochen Uebel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:20:06 +0000

Nice trick, but dangerous. If the space is to small the page number gets compressed, as Bob mentioned.
The overset dissappears always as soon there is enough space for 4 digits. So that the page number is only in danger to get compressed after page 9999.
One should always keep it big enough, also for situations when the font size has to get enlarged.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:58:06 +0000

Hmm, while I can make the VERY annoying overset marker disappear with this trick, I hoped this would also hide it when in Preview mode — but it doesn’t, it pops right back! Arrrgh!!!

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:25:22 +0000

I just tried it on CS2 and I think you’re right…it’s doesn’t seem to work.