February 9 2010 • 9:18 PM
By:
David Blatner
InDesignSecrets Videocast #11: Make Page 1 a Left Hand Page
What if you want the first page of your InDesign document to be a left-hand page? David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion show you three different ways to solve this puzzle!
(Please forgive the super echo effect in this episode. As opposed to the audio podcast, where we sometimes play with echo, in this case it was completely unintentional and due to some technical difficulties. Oh well.)
You can watch the videocast by clicking on the video below, or — if you want a larger version of it — go directly to our channel at indesignsecrets.blip.tv. These videos are also available on Adobe.tv (though it usually takes a few weeks for each episode to be posted there). Alternatively, you can watch (or even subscribe) to the video podcast on iTunes with this link.
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I’m having problems with playing the video from here? It’s not playing. I get the swirly time waiting icon, then it comes up with “You’ve just watched Episode 11…”
Oh nevermind – working now
Loving the vidcasts. It’s these small details that make our jobs so much easier! Keep up the good work
Now that I can see it in the video, I can see that there’s a little arrow in the grabber hand that points left or right, telling you if the page you’re dragging will appear to the left or to the right of the spine. Ah-ha!
You know…client decide
I must show my work in spread
8-1
2-3
4-5
6-7
Przemyslaw, you’ll have to turn off Allow Spreads to Shuffle (as shown in the video) and then drag the pages together like that manually … IF the client needs to see them arranged like that in InDesign.
If you’re sending them a PDF, then don’t bother. Just use File> Print Booklet to make the imposed PDF.
Right along with this discussion goes the quandry surrounding building facing pages with bleeds. I need to build spine bleeds, but want to use the inside/outside margin guides that come with facing pages. Seems I can’t do both things quickly/easily/elegantly. Any tips?
@Cheryl
http://indesignsecrets.com/breaking-pages-apart-to-bleed-off-a-spine.php
I know Harbs made a script to do this automatically, but I can’t find it.
Thank GOD you already have video podcast, cause it’s easy to learn if you see it visually than to hear it in audio. Appreciate more video podcast.
David is right on the page position because the first spread would be a PRINTER’S spread and the rest of the pages are in READER’S spreads. This can and will cause confusion IF the publication goes to outside parties. Marie is correct ONLY if you are not sending the job out! Love the videocasts!
Live saver! Loved it.
Hi it is very useful for me. i have some doubt in indesign cs3 when is was using the file i found some doubt how its accept for xml data in indesign please advise me.
Manikandan
Fantastic. I’ve been trying to get both pages in an A1 concertina knifefold document to function as left hand pages. Your third solution does the business. Thank you again, you have ended an hour of trawling the net. The video presentation is so much better and simpler than trying to decipher “expert” opinion. I’m a fan!