Duplex Question

OL Connect Professional
1

Right, I’m probably being a bit stupid but I need to know if I’m doing something wrong.

I have 2 sections:-

  1. Statement (any number of pages)
  2. Backer (T&C, 1 page always)

If I set both pages to duplex, I just get duplex documents for each section but I want section 1 to always start on a front-facing (i.e. Odd-numbered) page.

Am I missing the obvious?

2

For those of you interested in how I solved this, I did the following.

As I am generating duplex-ready PDFs for the client, I disabled all duplex options for both the Statement and the Backer sections. I then created a post-pagination script and executed the following:

if ((merge.pagination.pageCount % 2) == 1) {
    merge.context.sections.Backer.minPages = 2;
    merge.section.paginate();
}

This effectively says that for any resultant Statement + Backer which is an odd number of pages, go back and set the Backer section to a minimum of 2 pages. As this just contains an A4 PDF background, the result is a second, blank page for this section. The document is now duplex-safe.

Hope this helps someone.