Page shuffle issues with alternate layout

Lisa M

Tagged: page spread shuffle alternate layout

This topic has 4 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 1 month ago by Jamie Shaw.

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- February 28, 2017 at 6:04 am #92471
  
  Lisa M
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  Dear Forum
  
  I have a problem that I haven’t seen listed anywhere so far – I hope someone can shed some light on this.
  When creating an alternate layout, I can’t shuffle my pages around without them flying into the other layout, they won’t stay put in the new layout but rather migrate over no matter how I move them. I turned the 2 shuffle functions on and off but don’t know why they keep moving to the other layout.
  
  I have a tri-fold brochure (6 pages) with 3 pages stuck together per spread (shuffle turned off), which works great for print as the 2 spreads can be exported easily. Now, I’d like to publish this on the web, but the order makes no sense for this so I want to have the first and the last page as single pages, and the 4 middle pages as 2 spreads of 2 pages per spread. Easy, right? To avoid creating 2 documents I used an alternate layout, but can’t use it since the pages won’t stay put….! I used the MOVE PAGES command and listed exactly in which layout and where I want a page, and yet they fly over into the print layout which is just about driving me insane.
  
  Has anyone encountered issues with spread/page shuffles between alternate layouts?
  Thanks in advance for a great forum.
- May 15, 2017 at 7:02 am #94650
  
  Ryan Morrison
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  My issues is that I can move pages from the original layout to a new layout ok, but it won’t let me move them back to the original layout when I change my mind!
- May 15, 2017 at 12:21 pm #94656
  
  Lala Lala
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  just out of curiousity what happens if you drag these pages manually? Is it only “move pages” dialogue that fails?
- May 31, 2018 at 1:46 am #104123
  
  Ellen J
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  One year later now and I’m having the same problem: After creating an alternate layout in InDesign CC 2018 I have no control over my pages either.
  By coincidence I noticed that, in my case, the original layout does not have a name.
  
  So, I first named the original layout and then created an alternate layout. That solved my problems, hope it can help others.
- February 22, 2019 at 7:21 am #114604
  
  Jamie Shaw
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  Yes, me too. We’re either misunderstanding some vital concept or there is some bug. I found that it’s not possible to do anything with page 1 as InDesign somehow seems to rely on that as being the start of a new layout. In my case I wanted page 1 to be page 4. Instead of just dragging p1 down, I had to create a new page and then copy and paste the contents of p1 onto it. I could then delete p1. Page 2 had a section start applied to it, which may or may not have been important.
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