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Inside pages

Now is the time to use a new function Template, which allows the creation of a specification for a page, which can be applied either to one page at a time or to a series of pages at the time of their insertion into a document.

To start with, create 7 new pages with the command Page -> insert ... and fill in the dialogue box as shown :

We won't use the ability to apply a template at creation of the pages (through the menu labelled Based on), because we will have 2 templates, one for the left hand pages and one for the right.

Creating the templates:
To create the templates for the inside pages, use Edit -> Templates ... and in the dialogue box that appears, click on new, enter the name of the first template: left inside pages, click Ok and format the pages which will be the basis of all the left pages
We will of course use the scrapbook in which the gnu and the S have been stored.
In our example for the left hand page:
- 1 frame 6mm wide by 274.50 mm high with coordinates: X=12 mm and Y=10 mm, filled with black at 50%, with the text flow option disabled.
- 1 text frame 40 mm wide by 263 mm high with coordinates: X=23 mm and Y=22 mm, this text frame will be multiple duplicated 3 times with a horizontal displacement of 45 mm and zero vertically.
- 1 horizontal line 1pt thick, with colour YellowGold with coordinates: X=12 mm and Y=284,33 mm and 186 mm in length.
- Another horizontal line 1 pt thick in YellowGold with coordinates: X=12 mm and Y=10.22 mm and 186 mm long.
- One the grey frame, 2 text frames, 1 at the top, with an S in a size of 27 pt (for the Beta Dance Medium font) in YellowGold, and the other at the bottom with the number 1 in white in a size of12.
- An image frame16.9 mm wide and 16.2 mm high with the gnu at a scaling of 35%, the image must be centred on the central gutter.

The process in pictures:

Once the template for the left pages is finished, click on Quit, and the template will be remembered.
For the right hand pages, click New and copy the previous template with Duplicate, choose the name (inside right pages), and modify the template so that it is the exact mirror image of the left.

Since we are working with different templates for the left and right pages, we will use a function that allows us to see the pages side by side as they will be in the final document:
File -> Document setup : select the Facing pages option, leave the other option unset.
Edit -> Preferences: In the Display tab, select the option Display pages side by side.

Applying the templates:

For this make sure that you are on the correct page by using the pulldown menu at the bottom left of the workspace window:
then, page 2 for example is a left hand page (page 1 is the cover and thus a righthand page), click on Page -> Apply templates and choose the left page template in the pulldown menu.
Repeat the process for the 6 interior pages, the final page will be different.

Here is the result with the new layout with the pages side by side:

Above is the bottom of the cover page and the tops of pages 2 and 3, side by side with their symmetrical layout.
And below an overview of the whole document:

It now remains to let the text fill the inside pages by chaining the last frame of the cover with the first of page 2, and continuing thus through the logical sequence of the document.
It is also necessary to number the pages correctly by replacing the 1 which is on each page by the actual page number.
Here are a few hints for formatting text mixing image frames and text frames with a text flow:

First create a text frame and select the text flow option in the modify menu.
Place this frame on to of and between 2 columns of text, enter some text into it with centred alignment in a size of 13 coloured blue you should get something like what is shown in the screenshot below, if not, change the font size, or the size of the frame.
Note that adding this frame modifies the placement of the text in the 2 columns, and you need to modify the hyphenation to get the desired result.

The text flow of the frame will reshape the text of the columns around the blue text, and in this case the centred formatting means that the text is far enough away from the edge of the frame, but it is also possible in this type of formatting to use the text distance function which will make a margina round the text.

For this effect, it is necessary to replace the original text frame with a rectangular frame if the same size with a white background, no border, and of course with text flow enabled, placed at exactly the same coordinates.
The place the text frame on top of it, and with a slightly smaller size (so that it goes inside) and modify the colour of the background and of the text.
It is possible to use the Distribute/align tool to centre the 2 frames perfectly on top of each other.
Thus it is the rectangular frame placed under the text frame which controls the text flow of the columns with its text flow setting and allows the text frame to be placed with a kind of adjustable text flow (function TBD I assume).

Here there is a rectangular frame of the same size and position with a black border, which has been added above the text frame, because text frames, like image frames do not have this border option (at present anyway).

You can do the same sorts of things with image frames ...

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