From the course: InDesign Secrets
200 Using Work and Turn to create two-sided documents - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
200 Using Work and Turn to create two-sided documents
- Okay, so let's say you're making two-sided name tags or anything else that has a front and a back and you want that front and back to be aligned when you print it on both sides of the same piece of paper. Now, if it's just one thing per page, then it's not that big of a deal, you just have to position the frames carefully on each page. But if you're printing variable-data, for example, if you're using the Data Merge feature to bring in names and pictures from a spreadsheet or maybe a database, then it's a bit trickier because you need the data to be positioned differently on the front and back. For example, this name tag up here in the upper-left corner, the one labeled John Doe, should line up with the upper-right corner on the back side of the page, over here. Now, that's because we're printing this using what's called Work-and-turn or some people call it Long edge binding, we print one side then flip the page and then print the other side. If you are doing Short edge binding, also called Work-and-tumble, then this name badge in the upper-left would have to be matched with the name badge in the lower-left in order to match up back-to-back, right? I know it's a little hard to picture but believe me that's what has to happen. Anyway, unfortunately, there's no way to tell Data Merge to flow the text one way on one page and then mirrored on another page. So after we import everything, it looks kind of like this. The text and graphics on the second page are in the wrong place. We have to use a trick to flip these around. I'm gonna use the cmd + spacebar or ctrl + spacebar on Windows trick to zoom in a little bit so I can see this better. You can see that John Doe is in the upper-left and Sally Mae is in the upper-right. Down here on the next page, we have John Doe on the left and Sally Mae on the right. Let's go ahead and scroll down here and then zoom in on this page so we can see what we're doing better. Here on the second page, the back page, I want to flip these. To do that, I'll simply drag over all these frames to select them with the selection tool. Next, I wanna make sure that their reference point, this little icon on the left edge of the control panel, is set to the center point, not the upper-left corner. Then I could simply flip these around by pressing the Flip Horizontal button right here in the middle of the control panel. Of course, that just reverses all of these frames and makes everything backward. So it's not really helpful. Let me undo that, cmd + z or ctrl + z on Windows. Now, instead, here's what you do. After you select all the frames with the selection tool, then switch to the direct selection tool, that's the white arrow tool. You can do that just by pressing the "a" key on your keyboard, there you go. Now, I have the direct selection tool selected. And now with that tool, I'm going to click this Flip Horizontal button one more time. Did you see that? Isn't that cool? In this case, because we're using the direct selection tool, it flipped the objects but not the contents of the objects. So now it all matches up just right.
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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