This function allows you to add empty pages to a document. When
you click on the Insert empty page(s)
icon, the following
dialog box will appear:
First you can enter the number of pages you wish to insert. The maximum number of pages in a document is limited to 999,999. This should not be a serious limitation even if you are writing a 24 volume dictionary!
Then you can specify where the new pages are to be inserted – before or after the current page. This is handled in the same way as for loading pages.
The master page for the currently displayed document page will be
allocated automatically to the newly created pages. With the Assign
master page
function of the Master page editing function group
(see below) you can of course also change this later. Then all the
master elements on the current page will also be displayed on the
newly inserted pages.
But for also including elements on the new page(s) that cannot be
accommodated on master pages, you can copy the layout of a series of
pages to the new page(s). As discussed earlier, you cannot place empty
text frames on master pages whose contents varies from one document
page to another. The same applies for raster and vector graphic
frames, of course. Instead you can transfer these frames without
contents (the layout of the page) to the newly created page. To do
this the Copy master page
icon has to be selected. Then use the
editable fields From page
and to page
to enter the range
of pages whose layout is to be copied.
For single page documents, Calamus will use the layout from the current document page by default. For double-page documents, Calamus will adopt the layout from the current page and its partner, the corresponding left or right page. Incidentally, with, say, 15 newly created pages you can adopt the layout from 10 specified pages: The first 10 of the new 15 pages will adopt the layout of the 10 specified pages, on the remaining five pages you can copy the layout of the first five again.
Please note here too the possible conflicts arising with double-sided documents.