![]() InDesign will even add more pages automatically if it runs out of room. We have a number of book files and within each book, there are multiple documents of a page or 2 each. That way you’re sure it’s an overridden master page item. You can change settings to allow pages to be added or removed when working in text frames that aren’t based on parent pages. A new box will appear on that page + every page after to the exact size of your margins until your text runs out. To make sure, you can always just make a text frame on the master page, cut the text on the text page and delete the frame it was in, then Ctrl/Cmd+Shift-click where the new frame is (on the text page) to override it and paste the text into it. If the document includes facing pages, primary text frames must appear on both left and right parent pages, and the primary text frames must be threaded for Smart Text Reflow to work. Duplicate the frame for left and right pages if you are using facing pages. This will make any placed object fit the frame. Delete the content of the frame and set the fitting options to Auto-Fit (Object > Fitting > Frame FItting Options). I’ll make my text obnoxiously large again so you can see this in action. You can run a preflight profile to scale the pages to the desired size, with distortion, if needed, (Tools> Print Production> Preflight) or you can place the pdf into InDesign at the desired size and position, then export to a new pdf. Click the Fit Frame to COntent button to set the frame to match the size and position of the placed page. Want to know my most favorite time-saving trick for flowing text boxes? If you have a lot of pages and need to flow text to every page with uniform margins – like for a book – follow the same steps we just did, but when you draw your 2nd text box, just hold Shift and click once in the top left corner of your margin on the second page. ![]() If you want to expand your current text box to show all the rest of your text that is being hidden, double click on any scale arrow (corner or sides of the text box, NOT the red plus sign.), and this will expand your box out to match the amount of text you have. If you want to flow your text into a new text box, click this plus sign, then immediately start drawing a new text box, and your text will automatically spill over into the new box. ![]() If this is the case, you’ll see this little red plus sign appear in the lower right corner of your text box. Now let’s say the amount of text you have is more than the size of your box – this is called Overflow. So let’s draw our text box first, and I’m going to fill this with some placeholder text just for this example. First up, a refresher – when working with text in InDesign, you have to draw a text box for the text to be housed in, you can’t just click your cursor once and start typing like you can do in Photoshop and Illustrator. ![]()
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