Alternate Layouts amd Document Intent CS6

Is there a way to create an Alternate Layouts with different Document Intents? I cant't see it around and would like to backup this information.
This would become handy when creating a printed book and e-Book from one InDesign Document. Hope I miss something, because I love the LiquidLayout/Alternate Layout Features!
Regards,
Gregor

Hi Syed,
Thanks for the crash dump. I analyzed it at my end and it seems that AI CC 2014 goes into non-responding state due to some printer (printer driver) conflict.
Can you try the following two workarounds and let me know the end results:
1) Remove all the connected/installed printers.
2) Update the printer drivers for the connected/installed printers.
With Best Regards,
Raghuveer Singh

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I'm working on a plugin for InDesign CS6. I need to get the notification whenever alternate layout is being created on a document.
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PLD has no support for SQL. There is no direct field to get the cost. You may need add a UDF to get the value through FMS query.
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Gordon

How to know whether alternate layout is created on a document or not?

Hi,
I'm working on a plugin for InDesign CS6 and need to find out whether a particular document has alternate layout applied on it or not. Secondly I also want to get the notification whenever alternate layout is being created on a document.
Can anyone please help me out.

I'm not into the SDK, but according to the Javascript DOM, alternate layouts are part of Sections -- the section property 'alternateLayoutLength', for example, is "[t]he number of pages in the alternate layout section".
Perhaps that gives you a clue of where to look?

Alternate layout created when moving pages from one document to another

I'm using CC on Windows 7 - I have 2 documents that I want to merge and make into 1 [I know people will want to know why I would want to do this - each document is the result of a different data merge - data merge can only handle one master page - so I have 2 datamerges - 2 files - and just need to merge the 2 files]
This used to work beautifully in ID 5.5 - now when I use the pages panel to move the pages to the other document - it creates an alternate layout - it is then very difficult for me to interlace alternating pages - - I use dot be able to just move the pages into place - but with eh 2 layouts it is behaving differently and in a way I do not understand. Is there any way I can get around this? or avoid the alternate layout and just have one. The 2 page sizes are identical so it is not a problem of varying size - the paragraph styles are all the same as well. I have tried to delete the alternating style but it will delete all the pages as well.
Thanks

Maybe its time for me to Replace my Preferences, because I also have 8.0.2, and I tried the same thing with two new documents based on the same preset - it still made an alternate layout. When the moved page is placed in the middle of several pages (say - after page 2, of 6 pages) all the pages after the inserted one become part of the new alternate layout. In this example, I had a six-page document, and moved one page of the other identical document to After Page 3 Here's the result

When I move pages from one document to another, it creates a new alternate layout.

Hello,
I'm having an issue with combining some documents. Usually I use the "move pages" command and tell the pages to integrate with another document. However, because of the new alternate layout feature, both documents have the default layouts as "Letter V". So when I move pages from one document to the end of another, it creates a new alternate layout labeled "Letter V2" and "Letter V3" etc. Is there a way to make the pages just go into the main layout of Letter V without creating a new alternate layout? How do I merge alternate layouts created in the integrated document? All documents are the same page size and orientation.
Thank you kindly,
Sheena

Petrill,
Thank you. I was trying to do that yesterday, but it was grayed out. It seemed to work alright today.
Thanks,
Sheena

Publishing an alternate layout in InDesign CS6

I've create a 3 page sample file to show a client how they can re-purpose their InDesign print file and use InDesign to create alternate layouts. I've created a test file that has 2 alternate layouts. One is the standard iPad portrait view and the other is an iPad landscape view. I simply want to output this file as a PDF that I can show to the client on an iPad. How do I output or publish this file so that when view on an iPad it will show the landscape layout in landscape orientation and the portrait layout in portrait orientation?

Small correction: You CAN create EPUB3 fixed layout if you have CS6, but it can be a painful process. Anne-Marie Concepcion explains how in her video on Lynda.com:
http://www.lynda.com/Dreamweaver-tutorials/Comparing-looks-fixed-vs-flowable-EPUBs/94249/9 9018-4.html

How do you change the document settings of an alternate layout?

When you create an alternate layout this modal pops up allowing you to choose a page size with width and height dimensions. After you've selected "OK" how to you get back to this modal? When you go to File > Document Settings it only shows the settings for the main layout (frist layout created). How do you get to the doucment presets for an alternate layout?

You could use the Page tool.
In the Pages panel, highlight the master page used by the alternate layout you want to change. Choose the Page tool. Enter a new page size. Because you're applying this to the master page, it will apply to all the document pages based on it.

Some alternate layout questions CS6

I have been meaning to ask this as I have an issue coming up again and need to know how to proceed.
I have a .indd in A4
I need to do an alternate layout in pixels 600 x 1024
I was able to create this but the artwork and the text falls outside of the bleed box area. So my question is how can I create an alternative layout from an A4 to a 600 x 1024 pixle portrait and at the same time get the art work to display correctly within the boundries?
A tutorial available on this?
Thx
R

Click on the page tool then hover over your text box/object center, the following statement will be shown "The object width is locked. Click to change the object width as the page changes width" and a similar statement will display on the object height. Hover on the box/object edge, the following statement will be shown "Space is flexible between object and page edge. Click to pin the object relative to page edge" (those are the 2 options responsible for displaying your objects correctly). Then from the page panel drop down menu choose create alternate layout and under options choose "Object-based" in the liquid page rule drop down menu. Remember to create the alternate layout after setting your objects for changes to take effect.

DPS -- Updating articles with alternate layout page.

I am working on some DPS stuff and ran into an interesting work around... But I'm not sure if is actually supposed to work.
I am building a single (_h) orientation folio with single orientation articles and wanted to have a "scratch page" to work on in my documents (just space to create artwork and link it to hidden areas in objects states so my writers didn't have to go digging through object states to edit pieces).
So I created an "Alternate Layout" in my pages panel and made it whatever size I wanted. When updating the article I was pleased to see that the Alternate page that I had created was not shown in Adobe Viewer on my iPad.
IS there anything flakey about this workaround? Others that have tried this same work around have been given errors when trying to update their articles in folio builder, and I have not yet received that "content generation" error. WHY?

@Dave – since baseline grid is a document preference and not a page or a spread preference, this is not possible.
What is possible, is to set an individual baseline grid per text frame.
Or you could try to set your baseline grid to a common factor for both layouts, if that is possible at all, but there could be unwanted side effects…
For DPS usage I do recommend not using the baseline grid altogether.
@Neil – "Baseline Grid" might be an InDesign-specific feature, but most DPS users will have to work around the fact, that it is not a page or spread property, if they are using InDesign CS6 with alternate layouts.
Adobe should change that in a future version.
Uwe

Cannot access iPad or other tablets presets when creating Alternate Layouts

I'm all for repurposing but here's what bugs me. Suppose I create a cover for some magazine. Next, I'd like to create an Alternate Layout to see how the design would look on a tablet device. Fair? Suppose the Cover size is standard letter size. When I launch the Create Alternate Layout command, the size menu only lists "print-based" formats like Tabloid or Legal or A4 and so on. Why, on earth, wouldn't the "Digital Publishing"-oriented size not be listed there? Like Surfacei or Pad or Android or Kindle or Xoom? I mean, what's the point of this command? I have no choice but to choose "Custom" and enter 1024 pixels by 768 pixels, for instance. Yet, when I'm done typing, InDesign CC immediately converts to some equivalent "inches", like 14 some odd inches by whatever? It is unable to retain my custom units? Why?
I'm curious to know what rule is applied to convert between these units systems at this point? Is it standard 72dpi? I can't figure this out.
Another thing that bugs me in Creating Alternate Layout is the business of Bleeds. Suppose again, in my Cover design, that I use the standard 0.25" bleed margins, how can I get rid of them in the Alternate Layouts I create? Suppose again for a tablet design? I have not found a way to tell InDesign about resetting the bleeds on that Alternate Layouts. The net effect is that, the generated alternate layout looks silly on screen, with its stupid red guides that extends all around the page.
So that's my question. Thank's.

"The assumption is that a document will either be used for Print or for Digital Publishing or for Web".
So, it is an either or proposition.
I probably have a fantasy or a grossly preconceived notion of what Alternate Layouts are all about.
But blame it on Terry White and the other "evangelists", in AdobeTV and Tutorial videos who position this feature with the very purpose of doing a Print to Web to Digital Publishing workflow. It a user *has* to chose, at the onset, the intent of a given document then, this feature, in my eyes, has limited value.
I confess I'm not knowledgeable in all of Adobe's new products, in particular those designed specifically to "port" content from one type of media to another, like from Print to Digital. It's entirely possible that Adobe already has a solution for this "problem", that many, in the print business face, day in day out. I gather that if InDesign was actually delivering on this functionality, maybe it would actually be cannibalizing Adobe's other products, that are specifically designed with this functionality in mind?
So, I won't say that this feature is broken but as far as allowing a true "purpose-independent" kind of workflow, we'll say that Alternate Layouts will allow "portability" within one kind of media or another, not accross various media types.
Thank's Steve, for your patient and kind help.

Alternate Layouts not flowing to iPad

I created a simple folio with three articles in CS6.
For each article I created horizontal and vertical alternate layouts for Kindle Fire, Android, and iPad.
The folios download to the Fire and the Xoom and display as expected. The iPad doesn't see the folio at all. Using most recent version of the Viewer 2.5.0.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? Am I (as per usual) missing something?
Thx
DMc

Yes, both the V and H are those dimensions.
I just went in and made a few corrections - making certain that no content was outside the guides. And then updated the articles, but it hasn't showed up in the Viewer.
I find it noteworthy that the Document Setup shows a page size of Kindle Fire/Nook in the pull down, and then in the Edit Page Size flyout menu of the Pages panel I have selected iPad. Might I have been better off creating the thing for iPad and then making the alternate layouts from that one?
I will create a new folio now with only the iPad layout, and see if it appears in the Viewer. If so, I will add the alternate layouts.
Finally, is "Alternate Layout" a synonym for "Rendition" now in CS6?

Indesign cc. Alternate layout. Master B.

Background.
New > Document > web.
I am creating an .epub.
QUESTION.
Does it matter if the layout is vertical or horizontal in Indesign CC ?
I followed Anne Marie Concepcion's tutorial for creating an Alternate Layout.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/visual-design-cs6/working-with-alternate-layouts/
It is actually for Indesign CS6.
I Created an alternate layout so now I have two:
Letter V which looks like landscape.
800x600 which looks like portrait.
I thought that I would keep only the 800x600 portrait.
The tutorial shows how you can 'delete' the layout you do not want and then do a 'save as'.
I did this.
But now I No Longer Have a Master A.
I only have a Master B.
QUESTIONS
How can I change this to be called Master A. ?
With Indesign CC, and with the updated functionality of tablets, does it really matter which layout I use ??
I created an ePub in 2010 using Indesign CS5, and I did not use alternate layouts and the ebook seems to be fine on all tablets.
Can someone please clarify these things for me.
Thanks.

Thanks Anne-Marie.
So I think that I should just delete my 800x600 Layout ?
The 800x600 layout physically looks in my pages panel to be vertical.
And then save it again ?
QUESTION: Which Layout should I keep ??
That will leave me with the Letter V layout which was what is listed in all of my saved versions.
This is where I suppose I became confused.
The fact that that the term LETTER V is used when I created a document for the WEB.
'LETTER' denotes physical pages to me.
V is for vertical.
document > new > web defaults to 'horizontal' orientation if I am not mistaken
Does that makes sense ? My confusion.
It is just feedback.
I just hope that I do not have to go back and re-edit those last 50 pages
Thanks for the help.
I love adobe products.
I just want to understand this and move onto the next step.
I have been dreaming of a strategy to get my TOC to work the way I want it too.
Thanks Bob too.

Export an alternate layout from a indesign book

Hello,
I'm working on a big file, which has been, for size reasons, separated in multiple files that have then been assembled in an indesign book
Problem: This document is edited for print and also as an interactive pdf for ipad, which is why I have created an alternate layout for the ipad version, which contains a navigation based on hyperlinks, linking different pages and documents from the Book.
But here is the thing, when exporting the whole book to pdf (using the Indesign Book panel), I can't choose the layout I want to export, as I can do when I export from a single document with several alternate layouts
What I get when I export from a single file with two alternate layouts to interactive pdf
What I get when I export the Indesign Book with two alternate layouts to an interative pdf
Why is that? Is there a way I can export only one layout without having to RE-assemble the whole document into one file?
If I export the whole book as it is, my two alternate layouts are just following each other and it's a big mess, not to mention the hyperlinks don't work anymore.
Also, if the only way is to make one file, the file is then too heavy to be worked with, it's 280 pages long, with HD images on every page ( and the alternate layouts double the pages...)
Does anyone have a solution?

You mean, breaking the document into two or three files and then exporting each of these and then assembling the pdf files?
But then the hyperlinks from one doc to another don't work. I tried it already.
The problem is that I need to export ALL of these documents into ONE pdf because of the interactivity of the hyperlinks.

Buttons do not appear in alternate layouts

Hi
I have a 45 page app. Each page has button on it that call other pages, play video, or call an MSO
When I create alternate layouts not all the buttons appear on the new layout
the buttons that DO appear are:
1. A button that calls n MSO with two states
2. A button that calls a video to play
The buttons that do not appear in the new layout are buttons that call another page in the book.
I have hundreds of buttons in the app/book. All the buttons are on their own layer in each document and that layer is at the top of the layer panel.
How can I make the buttons show up on alternate pages?
If I have to copy and paste the buttons to the new layouts - is there a method that the copy and paste command actually keeps the link, so I don't have to relink every button on each of the new layouts... that is a big nuisance.
So.. I guess I have two questions:
1. How to make the buttons automatically appear on alternate layouts
2. If they won't appear how can copy and paste have some brains?
thanks
Deb

Since alternate layouts and buttons are core InDesign features, moving this post to the InDesign Forum.
Neil

Single pages and spreads in alternate layouts

Hi, I am currently creating an alternate layout for a multipage InDesign document that already contains my print version inside the document. I have an understanding on how to create the alternate layout (for IPad: 1024px X 768px) yet when I create them the alternate Ipad layout appears as spreads. How can I make them into single pages while maintaining my spreads in my print layout.

You’re wasting your time, IMO. There’s simply no need to do this.
I would save it as a new file and work on that.
That said, I would encourage you to post in the InDesign EPUB forum.
BTW, what version of InDesign are you using?

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