I'm not sure the situation is as grim as you think. I think the
2-page spread approach gets you most of the way there.
It should be quite easy to prepare English-only or translation-
only versions very by importing the appropriate flow into a
conventional, single-page template. (Remember that the
File>Import>File operation imports on a flow-by-flow basis,
so you can import the two languages into new container
documents separately.)
And if you really need to print a side-by-side version, most
print vendors should be able to handle the imposition required
to produce page signatures from a PDF that contains 2-page
spreads. The one thing you might want to do to make it easier
to verify that the imposition is correct is to number use the
same number but a different language suffix on the left-hand
and right hand pages (e.g. 2-F on the left-nand page and 2-E
on the right-hand, English page) of each 2-page spread.
But I freely admit that I have never had to do this for real...
-Fred Ridder
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sequential page numbers on alternate pages
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:01:33 -0600 (MDT)
Hello,
Yes, all good points I came to on my own in the last few days. The
stickiest part of all of this is any requirement for "special
impositioning tricks." XPress can manage two flows, one linked by hand, on
one wide page, and that system will work all right in translation, but the
pages require tricks to print. At least overriding right/left pages and
adding page numbers by hand results in standard print files.
Thanks to all those who sent suggestions. It's sounding kind of grim.
Kevin
> See my comments below, preceded by >>>>>>>>>>
>
> Peter Gold wrote:
>> This has been asked in various permutations and answered with a variety
>> of
>> suggested solutions, on one or another of the FrameMaker forums. A
>> Google
>> search for framemaker page numbering, or framemaker custom page
>> numbering,
>> should turn up one or more discussions.
>>
>> Usually one suggestion is to create a small flow-tagged master-page
text
>> frame on the master for the particular body page, Left, in this case,
to
>> hold page numbers. Then on the first left body page, tag the paragraph
>> marker in the text frame with a numbered format that's set to start at
>> top
>> of column, and press enter a lot of times to push numbers into all
>> existing
>> pages.
>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I wouldn't do this because you can't have references to
> "real" page numbers, as in cross-references, table of contents and
> index. Also, you'll need to set up two flows: one for the source
> language (A) and one for the target language (B). And you can't have
> flow A on the left master page and B on the right, they will get mixed
> up when FM adds pages.
>> On 9/3/07, Shmuel Wolfson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> If you could create a custom variable which calculates ((current page
>>> number + 1) / 2), that would do the trick. Does anyone know if this is
>>> possible?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Variables don't increment this way.
>>
>> If you create Flow A on the left pages and Flow B on the right pages,
>>
>>> can they have separate numbering?
>>>
>>
>>
>> No. But, because FM only can have one page number per spread, another
>> solution is to create a two-page wide layout, and use standard page
>> numbers
>> that display only on the "left page." You'd need to create a
master-page
>> text frame for Flow B, with Autoflow property for the "right page."
>>
> >>>>>>>>>> This will work better for the page numbers and references to
> the page numbers. You may need to try some special impositioning tricks
> in the PDF file, for example if you want to print a booklet
> "saddle-stitched."
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
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> Yves Barbion
> Documentation Architect
> Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
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