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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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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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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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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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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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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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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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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