The broken book page - InDesign 5.5 numbering

I have known some very persistent and reproducible errors with book numbering in InDesign 5.5.

Any comments or ideas would be very welcome.

Platform: OS X Lion (clean installation), InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 no plug-ins on the test environment

Reproducible condition:

  1. Create a new book, activate the automatic page numbering (continues from the previous section).
  2. Create four new documents, each adds ten pages. Make sure Autodial is on.
  3. Add each of these documents to the book.
  4. Save the book.
  5. Update the numbering of the pages of the book.

Result:

  • The documents are not page numbers correct display book in the book palette. They show the document, no book, parent of numbering. Each document is displayed (1-10) in the book palette.
  • When you view the documents themselves, the first two as expected from the document page number: (1-10) and (11-20). It is also the result when exporting to PDF format.
  • However documents 3 and 4 of the book take page numbers (11-20) in addition, as if they were every second positioned in the book.

Tested:

  • I tried the automatic replacement of pages options for the book (start on odd/even) without change of numbering. UPDATE: on a book 20 document there are a few sections that seem to reboot as "pairs", so the number restarts randomly throughout the book. Same document and book options numbering, as described here.
  • I tested with different numbers of documents, different pages.
  • Update the numbering after each attempt, no change.

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Post edited by: EthanJA - split the screenshot

Notes on the test of large document added.

Resolve by trashing prefs & cache.

So, for someone else, stumbling on this thread, on OS X trash (or move to a backup folder, better than practice):

Your user home dir is $HOME

$HOME/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign

$HOME/Library/Caches/com.adobe.InDesign

$HOME/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign

$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.InDesign.plist

$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.InDesign.plist.lockfile

Who cleared it, although I was running without modification known to all prefs, so this remains a black box solution.

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