Moving to InDesign

Chapter 40. Managing Book Files

InDesign’s Book feature lets you effectively manage a number of related files, maintain consistent styles and color definitions across them, and even print them all at once. This is similar to the book features in both PageMaker and QuarkXPress, but InDesign offers several additional features. For example, you can preflight, package, and export multiple documents from a book to PDF in one easy step.

Building a Book

If you’re familiar with how to build books in XPress, you’ll feel right at home here. You create books by choosing Book from the New submenu (under the File menu). This opens a Book palette, into which you can then add individual InDesign files by using the Add Document command from the flyout menu or clicking ...