Sorry to be dragging the list down to InDesign 101 level, but perhaps
there's them's that's dumb as me and thus may also benefit. I'm doing
a translated book (seven chapters, under two hundred pages, all the
text in one file so I don't think I need or want to use the book
feature), and I may want to adjust the text area later. I created a
doc and placed PDF templates of the original English pages throughout.
I now don't have the option of selecting Master Text Frame in Document
Setup, as I originally did in New Document.

This all clicks with my (feeble) memory on this, but I just wanted to
check and hopefully receive confirmation. If I might want to change
the basic text area of a book, Master Text Frame is the way to go,
right? Otherwise I think I'd have to write a script to change the area
on every page where I wanted it, and I'd prefer avoiding that. But if
you want to take advantage of this, you have to set the doc up with
Master Text Frame right when you first create it, otherwise it's too
late, right?

I guess I'm still generally a little confused about this whole thing.
I mean, you can have any number of master pages, so is Master Text
Frame good only for one of these? The frame of that first master page
will be auto-adjusted on pages to which it is applied, but not the
text frames of other master pages? Even with auto-adjust activated?

I hope it's clear enough what I mean, and that somebody can advise.


Thanks,

Roy


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