Bookfile re-pagination issues

I work in publishing and we deal with bookfiles (indesign CS4) which include chapters that are non-sequential in pagination ie. colour section chapters which slot in the middle of standard text chapters. We need to include these non sequential chapters in our bookfiles for indexing. Our problem is that despite switching off ALL automatic page numbering options ie. in the "book page numbering" options pallete from within the bookfile and within the "number & section options" pallete in each seperate chapter (where the desired page number is entered twice - under "start page numbering" and "start chapter numbering"), we still have frequent instances where chapters are automatically repaginating and continuing on from the previous chapter (and flipping from rhs to lhs and vice versa). This issue also extends to exporting our bookfiles as a pdfs - where similar problems with pagination occur. Looking at other forums this pdf problem at least, seems to be a common issue but the fix of saving files as IDML is not an option for us as we use a third party plugin and saving to IDML effectively strips this out.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to manage these pagination issues?

here is an example of one of our bookfiles. Chapter 31-col-architiecture (pages 284-287) is a colour section that slots into chapter 32-architecture-rom7 (pages 280-294). When this colour section is first added to the bookfile it automatically repaginates the first page to page 295, picking up from the previous chapter rather than maintaining the specified pagination (as seen, corrected, below) and throws the entire bookfile out. By doing so, it also flips the the document to start on the opposite page which has on occasion caused havoc with masterpages. Note it is not possible to physically insert the colour section into the chapter to produce a single chapter due to paragraph styles having the same names yet differing attributes (due to it being a colour section yet the content structured in the same way as the rest of the book).
our settings are as follows:
in the bookfile....
in each chapter.....
i suspect its the bookfile numbering options that arent able to be over-ridden which is the issue?
Note that we need these files in the bookfile for both indexing purposes and cross referencing purposes, and the third party pluggin we use is Typefi which is unlikely to be the issue...

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Problem solved: I obtained the desired results as per my original message in this thread.
The side question was asked as to why creating a separate FrameMaker 9 file for each heading and sub-heading (as described in my original message in this thread) is necessary. The answer is simply "budget" as the start-up company where I work wants to instantaneously generate a RoboHelp Flash Help project from the FrameMaker 9 book through linking FrameMaker 9 to RoboHelp 8, which is evidently a new function. Each heading and sub-heading of the user manual correlates to a UI screen or UI component. The User Manual was authored (before I arrived on the scene) with the intent of each heading and sub-heading in the User Manual TOC documenting a UI screen or UI component.
Therefore, instead of spending time creating a RoboHelp project in parallel, the company desired the elimination of costs associated with parallel development. Since the budget is non-existent for online help, pressing Help on any UI screen displayed a boilerplate screen instructing the customer to call customer support at a toll-free number, and a link to the PDF manual. Now, with minimal effort, the Help buttons are mapped to open the help topic for the corresponding heading in the user manual. Pressing Help opens the appropriate heading or "topic" and displays a TOC and search tabs as well (for full access to the documentation). This scheme requires little or no ongoing maintenance in RoboHelp 8 other than opening the help project, updating the links to FrameMaker 9, compiling the help project in Flash Help, and checking the help files in to Perforce for the nightly build.
Thank you once again for saving the day!
Message was edited by: holosys

Pagination Issue

Hi Guys,
I am trying to solve a pagination problem for my friend. He
runs an antiques business, and wants to be able to select different
items from a dropdown menu, which when listed are paginated so that
they do not appear all on one page. I have done a bit of pagination
before so I said that I'd help him. I have attached the code, for
which I have set up a small example database based on nationality
of people. If you click on British, only British names will appear
etc. This seems to work well, but the problem with the pagination
is that when I click on the link for say page 2, 3, 4, or the final
page then it just takes me back to the radio button menu again and
doesn't display the rest of the results.
If anyone can give me idea as to why this is going wrong then
I'd be very grateful as I need to meet him first thing tomorrow to
show him what I have done.
Thanks
Stuart
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// Assign connection data to variables
$host = "***********";
$user = "***********";
$pass = "***********";
$db = "comments";
// Connect to MySQL
$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or
die('Error: Could not connect you to MySQL');
// Connect to database
mysql_select_db($db) or die('Error: Could not connect you to
the database');
// **** Pagination Variables **** \\
// set total records per page
$total = 1;
// set URL variable
// Set the default value of $urlVar (the current page) to 1.
$urlVar = (!isset($_GET['page'])) ? 1 : $_GET['page'];
// ???????????????? Confused!!
$from = (($urlVar*$total)-$total);
// defines the LIMIT for each page, which can be passed
through the mysql_query function.
// This informs MySQL as to how many records are allowed on a
page.
$limit = " LIMIT ".$from.",".$total;
// Check to see if the submit button has been clicked or not
if(isset($_POST['submit']) &&
!empty($_POST['submit'])){
if(isset($_POST['nationality'])){
// Switch statement
switch($_POST['nationality']){
case 'Brit':
$query = "SELECT * FROM siri WHERE nationality='British'";
break;
case 'Amer':
$query = "SELECT * FROM siri WHERE nationality='American'";
break;
case 'Nadian':
$query = "SELECT * FROM siri WHERE nationality='Canadian'";
break;
// end of switch statement
$query_rs = mysql_query($query.$limit) or die('Error:
'.mysql_error());
// Convert the results of $query_rs into rows using
mysql_num_rows()
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($query_rs);
if(mysql_num_rows($query_rs) > 0){
echo "Number of rows is: $num_rows";
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo '<th scope="col">Id</th>';
echo '<th scope="col">Name</th>';
echo '<th scope="col">Nationality</th>';
echo "</tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_rs)){
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>".$row['id_no']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['name']."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row['nationality']."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
myPagination($query, $total, $urlVar);
// end of if statement checking to see if nationality radio
button has been selected
} else {
echo "Please choose a nationality";
?>
<form method="post" name="find_names">
<p><input type="radio" name="nationality"
value="Brit" /> British</p>
<p><input type="radio" name="nationality"
value="Amer" /> American</p>
<p><input type="radio" name="nationality"
value="Nadian" /> Canadian</p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit"
value="Submit" /></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
function myPagination($query, $totalPerPage, $urlVar){
// assign the results of $query to variable $db_result
$db_result = mysql_query($query);
$totalrecords = mysql_num_rows($db_result);
// below code works out how many pages there will be. For
example if there are
// 20 records / 10 total per page = 2 pages.
$totalpages = ceil($totalrecords / $totalPerPage);
// define $prev variable. This is used later to allow the
user to visit the previous page.
$prev = ($urlVar - 1);
// define $next variable. This is used later to allow the
user to visit the following page.
$next = ($urlVar + 1);
$pagination = '<div class="pagination">'."\n";
// displays the page number the user is viewing and the
total number of pages.
$pagination .= '<p>You are on page '.$urlVar.' of
'.$totalpages.'</p>'."\n";
$pagination .= '<ul>'."\n";
$pagination .= 'Page: [ ';
if($urlVar > 1){
// if current page is greater than 1 then display
'<<.' This allows user to go back to
// latest comments.
$pagination .= '<li><a
href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'">«</a></li>'."\n";
if($urlVar != 2) {
// if current page is not the value '2' then display '<',
which allows the user to revisit the
// previous page.
$pagination .= '<li><a
href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page='.$prev.'">&lsaquo;</a></li>'."\n";
// start the counter at 2, iterate through the for loop
until you reach the total number
// of pages.
for($counter=2; $counter <= $totalpages; $counter++){
if($counter != $totalpages){
if($urlVar == $counter){
// if the current page is equal to the counter, do not
display the $urlVal as a link
// highlight it in bold so that it identifies which page you
are on.
$pagination .=
'<li><strong>'.$counter.'</strong></li>'."\n";
} else {
// if not current page then display each page as a hyperlink
with the appropriate page number.
$pagination .= '<li><a
href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page='
.$counter.'">'.$counter.'</a></li>'."\n";
if($urlVar < $totalpages){
if($urlVar < $totalpages -1){
// Display the '>' hyperlink if the current page is less
than the 2nd from final page. Allows user
// to jump to the next page.
$pagination .= '<li><a
href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page='.$next.'">></a></li>'."\n";
// Display '>>' to allow user to jump to the final
page.
$pagination .= '<li><a
href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page='.$totalpages.'">»</a></li>'."\n";
// below code closes up the unordered list and div. Displays
the list of page numbers.
$pagination .= ' ]'."\n";
$pagination .= '</ul>'."\n";
$pagination .= '</div>'."\n";
echo $pagination;
?>

Does anyone have any idea about this one?

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I am using RoboHelp HTML 9 and for some reason cannot get a new linked or imported Word document to paginate. I've also tried a new Word document.
I have tried a new project and tried updating a project. I used my style sheet that has always worked for importing and linking, but no matter what I do the file does not paginate.
I have Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, and Heading 4 all checked for pagination.
I never had this problem with RoboHelp HTML 7 or 8. This is the first time I've tried it with version 9. I am trying to finish a project, so this is extremely frustrating. Could there be a setting I've missed on RoboHelp project or style sheet?
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If you would like to send me the document, I will try importing it and seeing what results I get. See the Contact page on my site but attach the document to the email.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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I just recently upgraded from TCS2 to 3. I'm linking a structured FM book to a RH project. The FM to RH mappings are set to paginate at the ChapterTitle and Heading1 (top level section elements) levels. Everything worked fine in RH8, but in RH9 any time I have a ChapterTitle not followed by a paragraph, RH9 isn't correctly creating a separate topic for the ChapterTitle and instead creating a topic using the chaptertitle with the first Heading1 topic lumped in. This creates a problem since I'm using a htt for the chapter level topics to generate a mini-TOC to the sections in each chapter. If I add a paragraph after the ChapterTitle (before the first Heading1) everything works fine and I get a separate topic for the ChapterTitle and the first Heading1. All other Heading1 styles are correctly being generated as a separate topic.
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Or use Topic Name Marker for pagination.
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