Comments on: How to Mirror a Layout

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:25:28 +0000

Sweet! Saves a tad of time.

By: Kisan

Kisan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:41:32 +0000

I had read this secret on layout Dec. last year and had forgotten about it.

And today when I needed it could not remember this trick and also forgot about the URL.

At last I located it and found it to be so useful.

Thanks for this lovely SECRET

By: Aaron Riddle

Aaron Riddle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:07:21 +0000

Nice! I could of used this tip a few weeks ago when I had a client remove a few pages from a 40 page catalog…causing some page rearrangements. Now I know for next time.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:57:32 +0000

Very helpful, thanks!

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:30:08 +0000

I made a video of it last week (click here).
Please turn down the sound, I’m rambling at about 8 in the morning just after getting out of bed, I only bought the software and was experimenting with it and I was just talking off the top of my head and rambling away.

Well anyway, you can see how easy it was to just make the front and back cover with an image that spreads.

There are other ways to do it, and I’ve done them other ways up to about a week ago, I am just showing this particular “technique”… and I’m still rambling.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:02:28 +0000

Cool David, thanks for the mention. It’s a really different and unexpected result and gives more dimension to just flipping and rotating images, now you swap there places in position.

It doesn’t really work across spreads though. And of course your way works much better across spreads.

I used it recently for a cover for a book.

The cover was a self-cover. The image supplied was 210 x 148 mm.

Instead of re paginating the book or guessing where the image meets up from page 1 and onto the back of page 8, I did this:

Placed the image on page 1 at the size of 105 x 148 (with bleed of course, but not into the spine)

Then I copied the image frame and went to page 8.

Paste in Place.

It’s now exactly where it was on page 1.

Then I simply select the frame with the white selection tool, and used the flip tool to flip the frame and not the content.

The image is now perfectly on page 8 and matches up with page 1.

It wasn’t that I was amazed by how cool it was, I just thought that it was a bizarre behaviour of the flip and rotate tools.

Another thing to try is just put 5 independant text frames on a page, marquee them with the white selection tool and rotate or flip.

It’s just bizarre really, but nice.