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Expert: InDesign Pro - 8/4/2009


Question
I have made 135 pages using Adobe illustrator but now I have to page number them (the easy way)... so I draged and droped the illustrator A4 pages into InDesign and fitted perfectly but the page number doesn't appear on them, it is like beneath them,, i tried to get the illustrator pages back but still didn't work!! On the empty pages the page numbers appear just fine! what should i do?? I have an illustrator CS3 and an InDesign CS3,, Plz explain in steps!! HELP my dead line for submitting the book is getting closer!!!!

Answer

Hi Nabil, if you're having the problem I think you're having, we should be able to solve this easily. If this doesn't work, please submit a follow-up question.

You've probably used InDesign's automatic numbering feature on the document's master pages. If so, try this: go to your Layers panel and create a new layer name Master Page Content. Go to your master pages and move your auto page number text boxes to this new layer. Now make sure this layer is the top-most layer in the layer panel and all other content is on the lower layer. (see figure 1)

Now when you go to your inside pages, your page numbers should appear on top of everything else because they are on their own, upper layer.

Let me know how this works out for you.

Scott
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    Rating(1-10)Knowledgeability = 10Clarity of Response = 10Politeness = 10
    CommentThank you man,, it worked,, YOU ROCK!!


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