Import InDesign docs

[chalsema]

I have about 8 different InDesign documents that I need to pull into one big document. Is there a way to do this with out copying and pasting? I can't seem to find a way to do it. Maybe I'm just overlooking something?

[Broacher]

Export to PDFs, Insert/arrange pages in Acrobat. That's the quickest. If you don't have the full Acrobat, place individual PDFs into a new ID document and go from there.

If you want to be able to edit the pages-- then you'll have to stay within ID. Then it's a cut and paste fest. The big thing will be text styles. Before copying a page, you'll have to trash the styles or risk overwriting when the next page gets pasted in.

[chalsema]

Thanks, that’s what I thought. Unfortunately I do still have to edit the pages. I just went ahead and made an InDesign “book.” Atleast they’re all in order and I can export to one big PDF in the end... I can already tell this project is going to kill me.

[Bobbigirl]

Don't quote me on this one, but I think you can actually select the page through the pages palette and just drag that page into the document you want it in. It should bring everything that's on the page into the new document.

Does that make sense? I don't know if I explained that very well...

[Broacher]

Yes, that works too. Thumbnail drags. Same concerns over style tags. Of course, if there are page size differences you'll get a warning. But the Acrobat insert page method doesn't have this limitation.

I should have been more specific in my description of assembling docs from individual PDF pages. It's dead easy. Open up your first doc in Acrobat, open up your file manager, find the directory, and drag the whole selected list of wanted files onto the open Acrobat page. It'll prompt you about where to add them. Note that it adds them in the order they're displayed in the file manager list.