Help With Master Pages

Hi all -
I'm more of a finance guy who has been given the task to design a PDF with forms - so please excuse my naivete as designing isn't my strong point.
For some reason now, my Master Page is showing up in the middle of my document, between two forms. In the Hierarchy, the Master Page is still on top, but when I view it in Acrobat or scroll down in LiveCycle, I'm seeing a blank page in the middle of my two forms. Any ideas what might be causing that and how I can correct the problem?
When I started, I just kept adding a new blank page and adding my form fields/text fields/objects/text. The document is now about 30 pages long.
I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro Extended and LiveCycle Designer 8.3
My thanks in advance for any help!

Could you post your form for a review?
Nith

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Not a problem at all
In Plan View, go to your Master A
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Thanks Al, you've been a busy ID user over the years. Me, I've only been using it for a couple years and I always seem to learn something new every day. Thanks for your help, and I'll continue to read further into the threads. There's always more than one way to skin a cat, we all know that, so there are multiple ways to fix the problem at hand. Some of my spreads hold large photos that actually go right through the spine of the spread, and yet the two pages of the spread can actually have 2 different master pages applied. So, I've got to figure out which way is best..whether its moving the master page items away from the spine or if splitting up the pages is better (not exactly sure how that will work yet with large spread photos). I'll look into it more later, when I have more time. Right now I'm on deadline (monthly magazine), and for a quick and easy fix, I can switch master pages off and just copy the master items over to each page spread where I need them.
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Hi
Does anyone can help me ?
I created a web and now I am creating a second folder/ file. How can I link this second folder to the home page placed in first folder ?
Sorry for my English

Hi Cari
Tanhks for you help. This open my mind, you mean I need to have two website to this ?
I ask you this because I have only one website. the acces to my site is only through customer site. I mean I give him the right link (one link for Company A and another link for company B, both coming from site), do you understand what I mean?
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Any idea Cari
Regards from Buenos Aires
Felix Cano Montoya
[email protected]
El 11/4/2015, a las 23:21, Cari Jansen <[email protected]> escribió:
Help with home page link
created by Cari Jansen <https://forums.adobe.com/people/Cari+Jansen> in Help with using Adobe Muse CC - View the full discussion <https://forums.adobe.com/message/7430081#7430081>
I'm not sure I've got a grasp on the issue you are having but let me give it a try
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Click Publish.
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Change Publish To setting to New Site
fill out rest of required details, and click OK to publish.
You'll now have two separate web-sites.
If you need to link between them, use absolute hyperlinks (the full URL).
Hope this helps.
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P Spier wrote:
You lost me here, Ken. Are you saying to override all master items?
No, another typo, sorry. I meant to write "Allow Master Item Overrides". Somehow the "ow" didn't make it in. First you have to allow the object to be overridden, then you override it.
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I started updating a file I created several years ago in InDesign CS3. I am currently running CS5.
I have multiple master pages set up in this facing pages document. Sometimes I applied Master A to the left-hand page and Master D to the right-hand page.
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Master A screenshot
Master D screenshot
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Mr. Spier
Right after I posted my question, I saw a post from last year where somebody had similar problems. (I cringed because I spent almost 3 days researching this problem and never ran across that post; thanks for not scolding me for posting a semi re-run.) I decided to try one of the easier solutions: I opened the problem document from the book panel, went to the master page and deleted the text box containing the page number, copied the page number box from a document that worked correctly, and pasted it into the problem document. Saved that doc, closed, saved book, exported to pdf, and it worked!! The page number problem was fixed. I went back and did the same thing for the other problem documents and they all number correctly now.
Probably not the best way, but for now this will fix it; I may have to do it again next time I add to the book. Although I didn't follow your instructions, I'll mark this as answered since it's working now. If it keeps giving me problems, I'll try the .inx export/new book route.
thanks for your time
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Matt Broughton wrote:
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I did find that using a custom paper size did add some unwanted margins to the output bounding box. Putting the custom page size into the PPD seemed to get around that issue.
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<pre style="overflow: auto;font-size:small; font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: #222; background: #ddd; padding: .3em .8em .3em .8em; font-size: 9px;">*PageSize Label1/Label1: "<</PageSize[288 107.8]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
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*PaperDimension Label1/Label1: "288.00 107.80"</pre>
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The full diff in context is--
<pre style="overflow: auto;font-size:small; font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: #222; background: #ddd; padding: .3em .8em .3em .8em; font-size: 9px;">loki:~ matt$ diff -u /usr/share/cups/model/epson9.ppd ~/Desktop/epson9.ppd
--- /usr/share/cups/model/epson9.ppd 2009-02-20 20:16:53.000000000 -0600
+++ /Users/matt/Desktop/epson9.ppd 2009-06-06 20:37:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
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*PageSize A4/A4: "<</PageSize[595 842]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "<</PageSize[1071 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
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*PageRegion FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "<</PageSize[1071 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
+*PageRegion Label1/Label1: "<<PageSize[288 107.8]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *PageRegion
*DefaultImageableArea: Letter
*ImageableArea Letter/US Letter: "18.00 18.00 594.00 774.00"
*ImageableArea Legal/US Legal: "18.00 18.00 594.00 990.00"
*ImageableArea A4/A4: "18.00 18.00 577.00 824.00"
*ImageableArea FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "18.00 18.00 1053.00 774.00"
+*ImageableArea Label1/Label1: "0 0 288.00 107.80"
*DefaultPaperDimension: Letter
*PaperDimension Letter/US Letter: "612.00 792.00"
*PaperDimension Legal/US Legal: "612.00 1008.00"
*PaperDimension A4/A4: "595.00 842.00"
*PaperDimension FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "1071.00 792.00"
+*PaperDimension Label1/Label1: "288.00 107.80"
*MaxMediaWidth: "1080.00"
*MaxMediaHeight: "86400.00"
*HWMargins: 18.00 18.00 18.00 18.00</pre>
I don't know if that will help you or not. Let us know what sort of progress you make.
Matt

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Sorry for taking so long to get back to you today -- I'm trying to repair windows on my house at the same time as I do forum stuff, and I'm racing the weather.
As near as I can tell you aren't actually using any of the master objects on Master A except the page markers, and you've detached that on page 3 and overridden on another page to bring them in front of the background (which is not in the frame from the master page).
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Your question is a good one. I was taught to always open up a blank In Design file, then import the master pages, so as to not accidentally re-save over the original master pages. We use the master pages as templates for projects we work on daily. It would seem easier to just open up the master pages, save as, then start working, which is what she's been doing for the time being. We do have back ups of our master pages. Just we were trained on one process, and it's challenging to break up or change that already inherent process.
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I have worked on customizing the page layout and the master pages for a couple of site collections.
But now I read two restrictions which I was not following 100%:-
I should avoid directly modifying any default templates, and instead of that I should take a copy and modify the copy. So that any future updates will not override my modifications.
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move down a level (Swap MC?) to allow the second to slide in above,
and then delete the movie that has moved down into level one
(Bottom) then have this repeat when another movie is clicked. This
way it will look like the page you clicked is always sliding in
over the one you are leaving.
Part 2:
I have no idea how to do this next part but... I believe it
involves a gotoAndPlay. I would like to have animation in the movie
that is unloading after the button for the next page to load is
clicked... in other words, you have loaded a page, you click on
another link, and before the new external SWF page loads, the
current performs a gotoAndPlay where I have animated some
de-constructing swipes that remove the text, shapes holding the
text, and the image. ONLY THEN does it start to load the movie for
the link it selected. I think what I am trying to ask here is how
does it carry the link through the unloading animation until it's
done and then execute the loading of the new external SWF of the
link they just clicked?
I pray this makes sense... If not I would be happy to explain
further. :) Thanks in advance for any help!

>> I have no idea how to do this next part but... I
believe it involves a
gotoAndPlay. I would like to have animation in the movie that
is unloading
after the button for the next page to load is clicked... in
other words,
you
have loaded a page, you click on another link, and before the
new external
SWF
page loads, the current performs a gotoAndPlay where I have
animated some
deconstructing swipes that remove the text, shapes holding
the text and them
the image, and ONLY THEN does it start to load the movie for
the link it
selected. I think what I am trying to ask here is how does it
carry the
link
through the animation until it's done and then execute the
loading of the
external SWF of the link they just clicked?
<<
You don't use frames. I'd probably use Fuse for this - which
is a sequencing
engine. (www.mosessupposes.com) You can call a function when
the sequence is
done animating - using what's known as a callBack function.
That'd be the
best way, IMO.
For part one, you could either place mutliple empty movie
clips, or just
create them using createEmptyMovieClip - which is a MovieClip
method, and
then load your swfs into them with MovieClipLoader. You can
use swapDepths
for layer control, in order to have any given clip move above
another, layer
wise.
Dave -
Head Developer
http://www.blurredistinction.com
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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