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Conditional Master Pages?

Jun 20, 2012 12:18 PM

Tags: #master_pages #master_page #conditional_text #single_source

My company is beginning to use conditional text for single-sourcing, but we've run into an issue - our different document types require different master pages. Is there a way to use different master pages for different outputs?

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1. jaloren28,

Jun 20, 2012 8:32 PM in reply to ErikaCCAE

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It depends on what you want to apply conditional text to. If you are referring to variables or text in some text frame, then yes. If you are referring to page layout, then no.

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2. Error7103,

Jun 21, 2012 3:53 AM in reply to ErikaCCAE

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AMP (Apply Master Pages) is as close as Frame gets to conditional MPs.

That said, there are two ways to do what you want.
text insets, or
edition-specific paragraph formats & AMP

We use approach #1 for badge-engineered product versioning. We author in one set of book files (for the commercial product version), but have a parallel set (for the consumer product version) where the cover and body file import the entire Flow A from their peer files in the authoring set. The authoring and parallel files have different condition codes enabled.

You could also use different para fmts for the edition-specific text, and use a CC set plus an AMP to map different master pages. This is more work, and only works if the page sizes are the same.

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