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In building master pages for a document, how do you have one master page in landscape layout when the other pages are in portrait layout?
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GeorgeMack
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You can "sort of" do this with a little (uncomfortable) trickery.
Make a master page. Put a smaller text box on it, rotate it (probably left 90°) and stretch it out to size. Text typed or placed into the box will now be rotated. Page elements like folios need to be put in rotated as well. If Quark errors (not enough space) then create items smaller, rotate, and re-enlarge; the error just means your rotation would have taken the item off the pasteboard.
While you can do this this way, editing the stuff brought in is literally a pain in the neck, since you can't rotate your view and have to turn your head. You can shrink the box back down, rotate horizontal (90° right in my experience), stretch the box back to size, edit, shrink the box again, then rotate back. This gets old quickly, and you might prefer to do all the edits in an auxilliary box (*copy* from box to "normal" box, edit, then cut and paste back into the original. The copy part helps take care of linked box problems.
Not a painless solution, but it may work if you actually need the pages in the same file, or if the rotated page is linked to a text chain in the same document.
Alternatively, you could also define a horizontal document as either a separate chapter of a book structure or with a section start with sequential page numbers, and just output sections one after another. That avoids all the rotation malarky and makes it much easier to maintain with edits and changes. This is the route I would recommend. (But it won't work properly with spreads, and linked copy would have to be either separately imported or copied and pasted from the other document, if that's an issue.)
I know this isn't what you'd hoped for, but Quark won't allow document pages of different sizes/orientations. Hope this helps.
Make a master page. Put a smaller text box on it, rotate it (probably left 90°) and stretch it out to size. Text typed or placed into the box will now be rotated. Page elements like folios need to be put in rotated as well. If Quark errors (not enough space) then create items smaller, rotate, and re-enlarge; the error just means your rotation would have taken the item off the pasteboard.
While you can do this this way, editing the stuff brought in is literally a pain in the neck, since you can't rotate your view and have to turn your head. You can shrink the box back down, rotate horizontal (90° right in my experience), stretch the box back to size, edit, shrink the box again, then rotate back. This gets old quickly, and you might prefer to do all the edits in an auxilliary box (*copy* from box to "normal" box, edit, then cut and paste back into the original. The copy part helps take care of linked box problems.
Not a painless solution, but it may work if you actually need the pages in the same file, or if the rotated page is linked to a text chain in the same document.
Alternatively, you could also define a horizontal document as either a separate chapter of a book structure or with a section start with sequential page numbers, and just output sections one after another. That avoids all the rotation malarky and makes it much easier to maintain with edits and changes. This is the route I would recommend. (But it won't work properly with spreads, and linked copy would have to be either separately imported or copied and pasted from the other document, if that's an issue.)
I know this isn't what you'd hoped for, but Quark won't allow document pages of different sizes/orientations. Hope this helps.
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