Good afternoon friends,
It is often necessary to change a few details in frame texts in order to enter a date here, a detail about the source there, etc. And therefore, to expand slightly on those proposed in the initial document.
Doing so creates a page exception. Is that such a big deal?
In fact, I can’t imagine having to create a new page template or even a new template for such minor changes every time. I reserve these options for more significant cases. What are your opinion?
In general, it’s better to avoid page overrides, or at least not to incur them until the end of the layout process. The reason is that a page with overrides will no longer respond to most changes to the underlying template. If you’re sure that you won’t need to change your template, then there’s no practical issue.
But you might consider whether you can accomplish what you want by editing the page template instead of the page – either by adding information to the template or by adding frames with tokens that reference the Project Info fields. This is especially useful when you want to make changes that will reflect on each part layout in a project. Remember that when you make edits to a page template in a project, those edits are specific to that project – they don’t carry over into other projects that use the same templates.
Evidemment. I shall do that next time. Thank you, Aaron.