[softwarelist] Re: Impression to OPro - page numbering

>The Impression original has 47 chapters (there was a good reason at
>the time!) and most of them are grouped - using Impression's facility
>to allow different 'chapters' to have the same chapter number.

That is news to me - which may say a lot about what follows.

>artificial 'chapter' numbering of the original cannot be replicated
>in OPro.
>Am I right?

Correct.

OP can stand a document have more than one page with the same page 
number. However it won't like having more than one chapter with the same 
number.

>Also, is there a way of getting the conversion to OPro to take
>account of 'trailing empty pages' in an Impression Double Page
>Spread?. This, too, mucks up the original page numbering.

There is the 'start on left', 'start on right' setting for each chapter.

I have a dim memory of some important point about blank pages 
(printing?). I can't recall or locate the feature off hand...

>Finally, I didn't realise before that OPro uses a master page for
>each chapter - even when the master page is the same (as opposed to,
>say, one master page serving the whole document). This makes
>repetitive master page changes to a multi-chaptered document very
>tedious. Or am I missing something?

No you're right there. It is a long term aim to change this.

>I am resigned to a bit of a slog (probably to get rid of the 47
>chapters in the Impression version) but I thought I'd ask here first
>for any ideas.

I might be inclined to take a text editor to the DDL version i.e. for 
combining chapters.


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