ADOBE: How to print a table only on uneven pages and a text on the back?

[Former Member]

Hi, I am looking for a clear document on how to use pagination and the Odd and Even pages.

We need to print a table over several pages, but the table should only appear on Odd pages. The even pages should be skipped. On the even (back) pages we need to print "Terms and Conditions". Is that possible? Can it be done without scripting?

We are using ADOBE version 8.1

In the file properties, double sided is switched on, and version set to 8.1 and higher.

I created two Master pages, a FrontPage with ContentArea1and a BackPage with ContentArea2.

FrontPage is used for uneven pages, BackPage is used for the even pages. The masterpages are printed correctly (alternating properly).

One page was created for the table, totals etc.:

ITEMS: contains item data (table with header and footer). Place is "On Odd Page". After "Goto page BackPage", so there is always one page with the text. And if the table needs to be paginated it goes to BackPage with overflow leader "Conditions".

What should happen is that on the front pages the item table is printed. If there are too many lines then it should continue on page number 3 then 5 etc. All the even pages should display text only.

What actually happens is that the item table also gets printed in the content area for the Condition text...

The best I could achieve is to decrease the contenta area of the back page. To force pagination. But still it prints one table record in the (very small) content area of the back page before paginating to the next page (front page again). If it only would not do that, it would be fine.

Cheers,

Edwin.

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Hi ,

Please let me know how to print only on first page back side in the adobe. I have multiple pages data flow. But i have to print Conditions on the back side of first page only.

Thnaks in advance.

Hema.

[Former Member]

Fixed it... After a lot of creating, deleting, playing around with pagination and the inevitable cursing...

I have created 5 pages:

1. FirstPage 
     - Odd/Even: Odd (Front) Pages
     - Placement: First page (In page set)
2. FrontPage (For Odd pages)
     - Odd/Even: Odd/Front Pages
     - Placement: Rest of Pages
3. BackPage (For Even pages)
     - Odd/Even: Even (Back) Pages
     - Placement: Rest of Pages
4. LastPage
     - Odd/Even: No Odd/Even Restrictions
     - Placement: Last page (In page set)
5. DummyPage
     - Odd/Even: Blank pages

The 'Terms and conditions' are located on the BackPage and LastPage (as a text).

The table that is printed is (of course) located on a normal page (flowed subform).

Pagination tab: Placement = Following previous, and After = "Continue filling parent". No overflow... Basically, it's all default.

The table lines will now start on the first page and if there are more lines than can be printed on this page, it will continue in the next content area. That will be on the FrontPage.

The trick is that each master page must have a content area (mandatory). Except for Blank pages, but these cannot be used... Blank pages would only be used once, after the first page.

What I discovered is that you can drag a content area away from the Master page and attach it to a different master page.

Logically, if there is no content area on a page, then data cannot be printed there. So, I created a Dummypage. On this page I dumped the content areas from the LastPage and the BackPage. As a result, content cannot be printed anymore on the back of pages. Only the standard text (a text field) is printed there. When the data from the table is overflowing, it will automatically overflow from the FirstPage to the next content area. Which is located on the FrontPages only.

The DummyPage is NOT used anywhere.

The result is that the records can only be printed on the content areas that exist on the First and Front pages. The back pages are now skipped.

Duplex printing is now working correctly, and the text is printed on the back of all the pages.

Cheers,

Edwin.

[Former Member]

Hi Edwin,

Thanks for the post. It was very helpful.

I have used your solution and for printing it works great.

I have additional requirement of archiving, emailing and faxing. While sending a email or fax or archiving, the data should be continuous, the back master page should be removed otherwise they show in alternate pages.

Do you know any settings which can be done to remove the master forms that are not needed based on a codition.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Regards

Neha

[Former Member]

Hello Edwin,

I would like to know if you could send me a screenshot about this. I'm new in Adobe and I don't understand very well Adobe concepts yet. My configuration is like this but I'm not sure if I'm following correctly your post. My doubt is when you say that you that you can drag a content area away from the Master page and attach it to a different master page,  how is this?.

Thanks in advanced.