Alternate Layouts CS6 and long text documents

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    • July 9, 2014 at 3:37 pm #69423
      JD Matlock
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      Hello –

      I’ve watched every video there is on Alternate Layouts/Liquid Layouts (Lynda.com included), yet I can’t seem to crack this one. If I have a book laid out in a document called Manuscript where all my edits happen, and I want to create alternate layouts of that document for iPad, iPhone, etc. How do I do so without having to adjust the text frame of each spread for all 300+ pages on the smaller layouts? The text links no problem, but only the first page abides by the object-based rule and makes the text frame smaller to fit each alternate layout, but all the pages after the first one display the 8.5×11 full-sized text covering the much smaller iPad and iPhone layouts. Is Alternate layout/Liquid Layout not meant for documents longer than a few pages due to the fact that you have to manually resize text frames for each page?

      Am I missing something?

      Any help would be appreciated.

    • July 25, 2014 at 1:04 pm #69677
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Keymaster

      You need to apply the liquid layout rule to the manuscript’s master page, and set the document pages to be “according to Master”.

      But I’m not sure why you’re making alternate layouts for an EPUB, that’s not necessary. Is this a DPS project?

      AM

    • July 25, 2014 at 2:17 pm #69679
      JD Matlock
      Member

      Making alternate layouts so I can “see” how text flow changes depending on size of the device. I will do as you say above. Thank you!

    • August 26, 2014 at 3:40 pm #70263
      MARITZA MORENO
      Participant

      I made an epub plenty of tables and some of the tables data (not all) and only in my ipad seems to be a link (blue and underline). when I touch those numbers I receive a pop message “send message, add to contacts, copy” . I replace commas by space ( ) In some cases there are more than 2   just to align data correctly. Does this have to do? How can i solve this problem? thanks
      (sorry for my english)

    • August 26, 2014 at 3:52 pm #70264
      MARITZA MORENO
      Participant

      I made an epub plenty of tables and some of the tables data (not all) and only in my ipad seems to be a link (blue and underline). when I touch those numbers I receive a pop message “send message, add to contacts, copy” . I replace commas by space ( ) In some cases there are more than 2 just to align data correctly. Does this have to do? How can i solve this problem? thanks
      Maybe the foto can explain better the issue https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8n526deoi1mbyj/la%20foto.PNG?dl=0

    • August 26, 2014 at 3:57 pm #70265
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Maritza: I think your iPad thinks those are phone numbers! I don’t know how you can stop it from doing that. Strange.

    • August 26, 2014 at 5:22 pm #70269
      MARITZA MORENO
      Participant

      Very, very strange. I edit the epub in oxygen, and it’s the first time this problem appears… Hope you can help me solve the problem later.

      Thanks for your time

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