Placing double pages one below the other

Question

Does anyone know if it is possible to place double pages one below the other instead of side by side? If it is, please be so kind and describe how it´s done. If not let me know for it´s a very relevant question for me concerning workflow.
Thanx

Answer 1

>How did you do your annual calendar before you worked in InDesign?
We did our first one in Freehand, which allows you to arrange the pages any way you want, which is where I got the idea that ID should. The only reason we switched from Freehand to ID for our calendars was because it was easier to work with the text ... and then Freehand got bought out by ID and dropped. (And no I'm not saying that Freehand was the best application for this type of project--only that it had the ability to do vertical spreads.) The thing is, the option exists in Freehand, Adobe now has Freehand, so it seems like they could look at how Freehand did it and see if it could be implemented in ID--and maybe they have. If we don't keep asking, then they won't, right? All we're doing is asking.
We currently do the layout on one page the size of the calendar spread and break it up using PDFs placed on ID pages. That works for calendars (even if it is time consuming), however, I've done several books that were not calendars that use a horizontal binding and needed page numbers on the top and bottoms of the spread, and I had implement all kinds of masters to do what is automatic on the horizontal spreads. It doesn't make sense to me that an application that is designed for book layout can't do both kinds of spreads.
But I repeat what I said before in my first post. I think rotating views would solve that problem (along with others) quite nicely. You could then rotate all your text boxes and work like you were on a vertical spread and still have all the features of a horizontal one.
>I always get my fists up when I read people saying "Why can't InDesign do this?". It always feels as if they are saying "Why can't ID do this? It was so easy to do in Quark, PageMaker, FrameMaker, or even Word!"
No need to get your fists up. I love ID. I've been using it since version 1.0 when everyone else was still laughing at it. (I dropped PageMaker gratefully and without looking back). I wouldn't use anything else (including Freehand). But to say ID doesn't have room for improvement is to say it is perfect and it isn't. Why does it bother you so when other designers have features that are so intrinsic to their workflow that they just can't understand why everyone else isn't upset it isn't in ID? I admire your skill with ID and your ability to help everyone, but I really wish you wouldn't be so quick to jump down people's throats when they miss features that would make their lives much easier. Maybe you don't understand their frustration, but that doesn't make them wrong. When I first had to do a vertical spread, I was really flabbergasted that I couldn't switch the spreads around, I missed the feature because I needed it. Isn't that enough for you?