In developing books I regularly come across the need to relocate sets of pages from one place in a larger book (primer) to another place. Dragging page by page longer distances doesn’t work so well in Bloom. If I could cut a page and paste it where I want it to go, that would save a lot of time. Dragging it, I would have to drag and drop several times to get it to where it needs to be. Currently I copy it, take it to where I need to paste it, then once it is successfully relocated I go back to the original page and remove it. (There are several screen saves and refreshes in there and that takes a lot of time.)
This might be unique to me and the way I develop books. But if it isn’t, then it might be a good feature to have in Bloom.
Thanks for the suggestion, Glenys. Sounds good. Another way to go about it that we could think about is to have a way to expand that page list pane horizontally, so that you can see many more columns-full of page thumbnails. You’d flick it open somehow when you were doing this task of reordering, then flick it closed.
I would add to this the ability to copy/cut and paste more than one page at a time, either into another position in the same book or into different books.
Thank you very much for this quick reply. Fantastic. It took a while, but I’ve got it! It’s a case of learning to work outside Bloom as well as inside. Until now, I still find MS Publisher an easier and more flexible programme to use to create a book, but Bloom was chosen for this project.
Sorry, but here are three more Bloom questions:
How can I change the page numbers to bottom middle, instead of outside corners? The outside right-hand number gets cut off when I “publish” in Bloom and select “actual size” to print to my HP printer, and the gutter moves if I select “shrink” or “fit”. (Although it prints OK on “actual” on a Canon printer. I just want to be sure that whoever receives it will be able to print it with the page numbers.)
How can I increase the amount of material on a page? Half an A5 Bloom page quickly fills up in Andika 28, but with only two short sentences on a half-page, there is a lot of room left on the printed page, in which I would like to add more printed material. But if I add more, Bloom shows an exclamation mark to indicate that the page is overfilled. So how, in fact, can I add more?
Is there a way of copying pages from books from one collection to another? Based on what I tried so far, I can do it between books within the same collection, but when I go to another collection, the clipboard seems to be wiped (paste is not active).