Center page spread

I have been using Pages to produce a school newsletter. I would like to know if its possible to do a Center page spread. By that I mean have the middle page of the newsletter spread over the two pages. A photo or text that has half on one side and the rest on the other page.
Thanks
dave

Great question!
I just tried it, and using one image, it didn't work. It left the second half 'blank', with only the placeholder outline. So - no luck there.
BUT! If you duplicate the image and then drag it into line, you can cheat it into looking like a double-page spread.
As for text, I might have misread your question, but you can use the *blue arrow connectors on the text boxes* to naturally have text flow across pages.
Alternately, like for a title, you might try the cheat method for images.
Let me know if this works for you.

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Marc
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IBooks two page spread for children's picture ebooks

Hi,
I am creating a children's ebook for iBooks and I'd like to get the following result (taken from Peppa Pig: Tiny Creatures, published on iTunes for iBooks):
The final picture ebook should have a gutter/seam in the center, 2 page spread and pages that stack when flipped.
I saw in this post that iBooks Author can't do that and we should use use Pages instead, exporting the book as an ePub to iTunes.
But how can I do this in practice with Pages? I see that Pages doesn't export the file to ePub if certain layout features are enabled and that we should follow a strict procedure to create an ePub with Pages, as described in the "ePub Best Practices".
Now, if I follow the ePub Best Practices template, I come out with a pretty dull design, good only for novels or similar.
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As for that 'spread' image, I suspect it is actually two...left and right.
Suggest you move to the Pages forums for details...?

Two-page spread for non-Apple printed book

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Set up your document as facing pages and just place the photo right
across the spine. When you export the PDF, the photo will be properly
split on the spine and the two portions will show up on the correct pages.
Bob

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I'm laying out a long novel in InDesign CS3. I've set the text to align to the baseline grid and have the keep options set to prevent widows and orphans. Because of these keep settings, often one page is a line shorter than the one facing it. Is there some way to set things up so that the longer page in a 2-page spread automatically breaks a line sooner, so as to match the shorter facing page -- or do I have to introduce page breaks manually, spread by spread?

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HTH
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JWKewet wrote:
I'm laying out a long novel in InDesign CS3. I've set the text to align to the baseline grid and have the keep options set to prevent widows and orphans. Because of these keep settings, often one page is a line shorter than the one facing it. Is there some way to set things up so that the longer page in a 2-page spread automatically breaks a line sooner, so as to match the shorter facing page -- or do I have to introduce page breaks manually, spread by spread?
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HT1040 I am just about to order a 92 page book in Aperture and have previewed the order and found that in the PFD file I get all the pages are now different. Double page spreads are now on 2 different pages when viewed in 2 up continuous mode in Adobe Rea

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I have worked out a simple way to put a single picture in the background on a two-page spread!

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So here's the exciting bit (well the solution anyway):
Click on the picture you want to use as your two-page spread
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select your image (e.g. X.jpg) and right click on "Export..."
send a copy of this picture to "Same folder as original photo" (DON'T overwrite! remember to use a unique name, such as X_1.jpg)
then repeat to create another copy (use another unique name, such as X_2.jpg)
STEP 2 - In the Develop module, take X_1 and:
click on Crop Overlay (the dotted rectangle at the top of the right menu, just below the histogram)
select a region that is 50% of the width of your original image (easiest is to click on Custom and enter original height plus half original width)
click on the middle of crop region (hand grab icon) and drag the image all the way to the RIGHT
click again on the dotted rectangle
X_1 will now be an image that is just the LEFT half of your original image.
STEP 3 - In the Develop module, then take X_2 and:
click on Crop Overlay
select the same region that you used for step 2
click on the middle of crop region (hand grab icon) and drag the image all the way to the LEFT
click again on the dotted rectangle
X_2 will now be an image that is just the RIGHT half of your original image.
STEP 4 - In the Library module
select the folder your original photo was in
find your two new copies of that photo
drag them to your book situated in the Collections folder on the left menu bar
STEP 5 - Look under Collections and click on your book and then in the Book module
in the Background section (right side menu), UNcheck "Apply Background Globally"
to the right of the small rectangle below that, click on the tiny arrowhead and make sure "Photos" is selected
select the left page of your spread and drag X_1 (the left half) onto the rectangle
select the right page of your spread and drag X_1 (the right half) onto the rectangle
DONE!
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Have fun! I was so excited when I finally worked out this work-around

I have an even simpler method. I use MyPublisher to print my books. I select their page layout for a two-page spread, drag and drop the image. DONE! I understand that most people have their favorite places to have work done. I have been extremely pleased with MyPublisher.com, so I haven't even tried the book module in Lightroom.

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