Tags 'Re-order Themselves' when duplicating spread issue.


hi,

just thought i'd put finding in on topic 6 months ago (forgive me if has been done couldn't find anything).

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c05d68b/2

note, issue duplicating page repetative list of tags.

this has been huge issue me on several of templates decided find out how xml tags keep pre-determined order require (my development staff hate redoing xml reports our database).

it appears indesign tags re-order in following sequence, top bottom left right on each page when duplicate single pages. worse on spreads because top bottom on left page, top bottom on right, left right on left , left right on right page. cycles till tags have been duplicated on spread. please note, master pages not in situation, still reorder when overide , have overide otherwise populate pages 1 set of data.

now in case 11,000 tags manually reorder on particular project, aint going happen!

but there fix...

1. create layer every tagged page item on left page
2. create layer every tagged page item on right page
3. copy page items layers created them (has 1 item per layer only)
4. reverse layer order on left page (i.e. 3-1,2-1,1-1)
5. reverse layer order on right page (i.e. 3-2,2-2,1-2)
6. duplicate page , should find new tags in structure in correct order.

i hope helps else out there.

brett



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