Tuesday, January 12, 2010

FAQ: Articles spanning several pages

Q: We are exporting technical books using BatchXSLT for InDesign. Most articles are chained over multiple pages. Now the problem: The text is exported as a single block and all images are AFTER this text block. Any solution?

A: By default, BatchXSLT for InDesign does not split/break any text chains, text is exported as a whole even when running over multiple pages.

Solution #1: When calling the main export 'ExportCurrentDocument.jsx', check the radio button 'Split chained story frames per page'. This will split up the article's text at the page boundary and the images now will be aside the page's text.

Solution #2: If you need to have the article's text as an entity, then anchor the images at the proper text location.

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