RE: Importing file with different page layout (expanded description)

[edunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

My quick answer may have been a little flippant so here's a more detailed one:

Create a book that contains all the files. IMO, You should never insert
disconnected pages into a Frame doc. Use Frame's strengths in the book
functionality to keep different layouts and different bits of information in
different files.

If your 2-col layout is one file, break it into two. The first file ending at
the place where the 3 column layout shout begin (file1). The second file starts
where the 2 column layout is to continue (File3).

You then create a book with these two files and the 3-col layout file (File2) in
the middle [File1/File2/File3].

In the case presented, it may be possible to have master pages for each layout
possibility, but it becomes just another hassle when it comes time to publish or
maintain the document. If the text moves, then so does the master page usage.
That usage then has to be manually corrected and maintained. With a book and
separate files, the manual maintenance worries are forgotten.

Eric L. Dunn



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