Comments on: Moving Pages to Another Document Doesn’t Have to be a Drag.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:45:08 +0000

@Martin: Thanks, you made me laugh! It reminds me of what people said back in 1998 (and even some still today!) about how PageMaker is so much better, did so many things first. As Bob said: use whatever floats your boat. But it sounds like you’d be happier over at planetquark.com.

By: Bob Levine

Bob Levine — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:04:00 +0000

@MartinB Competition is good. You should use whatever you enjoy better. I’ll stick with InDesign, thanks.

By: Martin B

Martin B — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:58:06 +0000

Funny, Quark did this seamlessly before Indesign ever was released.

Another Adobe falsehood.

Spread the truth about Indesign: takes longer, is written for computer people, not designers who’ve studied type, memory HOG, and what you can do in Quark in 1 move takes 3.

Bleh.

By: Jason Fairchild

Jason Fairchild — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:09:41 +0000

It seems to me that when you move pages in this way, there is some kind of residual link to the document the pages were copied from.

Here’s the situation:
I had an InDesign document that simply would not export to an InCopy Assignment. When I copied the pages to a fresh document I was able to export as normal.

But I noticed the file name of the previous document as I was exporting. I thought it strange.

Later I moved the older document to a backup folder and at that point my new document would no longer open and InDesign would shut down completely.

Moving the older document back to it’s original place in my work folder solved the problem.

So, now it seems I’m forced to keep both InDesign documents together to be able to work. What is this phenomenon and how can I divorce my older document?

By: Lynn Anslow

Lynn Anslow — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:05:13 +0000

My master pages transfer to the next letter down in the alphabet. I.e., the original Master A becomes Master B.

Otherwise, this post has been a lifesaver! I was trying to do the drag-and-drop thing this morning, and it just wasn’t working.

By: Lisa Paynter

Lisa Paynter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:06:04 +0000

When the current document has a two page master spread and the target has a one page master spread your content won’t fit on the page correctly. If you have to then move pages within the document, these pages need to be fixed every time.

I will be making new masters for one of our document designs and hopefully this will fix the problem.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:01:18 +0000

Is it just me? Or does Move Masters in CS4 not work as you’d expect?

I have a document with three master spreads. I went to the Pages Panel and selected all three of them in the panel. I had the document open at one of the three masters — the first one.

The menu command said Move Masters giving me the impression that all three would be moved, but only the first one was.

This looks like a bug. The dialog definitely says that it is going to move “(Selected Masters)” but what it actually moves is the master at which the document is open. Worse yet, when I had a live page active but three masters selected, it still told me it was going to move “(Selected Masters)”, but what it actually did was move the active page and its master came along for the ride.

This is on a G5 iMac.

Dave

By: Boaz

Boaz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:01:46 +0000

Feature request 2:
Add “New Document” to the “Move to” drop down memu.