Comments on: Package Multiple Documents Quickly

By: Kasyan Servetsky

Kasyan Servetsky — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:56:16 +0000

Hi all,

I wrote a script that packages all InDesign documents in the selected folder.
http://kasyan.ho.com.ua/package_for_archive.html
If you have any ideas, suggestions or problems concerning this script, let me know.

Kasyan

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:47:28 +0000

I use the book feature for this all the time… as well as creating a multi-page pdf of various page sized documents. It’s a great feature that many users aren’t aware of! thanks for the post!

By: Iustinian

Iustinian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:06:50 +0000

Sean M. O’Grady
— “if all of the pages have common elements ie logos, it will only package one of the elements”

Not true. (for ID CS3 v5.04 at least)

If you have 100 documents that have the same logo named “logo.eps” packaging will get you: logo1.eps, logo2.eps …logo100.eps all together.

And ID will also re-link them to their “new” names, so if you were to “clean” you will get links missing errors..

By: Sean M. O'Grady

Sean M. O'Grady — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:14:38 +0000

Something else to note, if all of the pages have common elements ie logos, it will only package one of the elements. Great space saver on the packaged copy. One thing I did notice, indd stored on a server volume may bog down or crash the collect, speeds up drastically, and doesn’t crash if you create a book with a local copy of the files.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:02:06 +0000

David. Thanks for this info. It worked beautifully… you rock.

By: Gfx-Dzine

Gfx-Dzine — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:38:08 +0000

Just wanted to note that the ‘Inpreflight’ plug-in from Zevrix that Jeff mentioned is Mac-only.

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:52:20 +0000

Doesn’t Flow have an InDesign packaging option? I seem to remember reading/hearing about something like that. It might be a decent option for individual packages, and since Flow has a couple other cool features it could help offset the higher cost.

By: Jeff Kew

Jeff Kew — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:51:47 +0000

http://www.zevrix.com/inpreflight.php

the inpreflight plug-in from Zevrix has some amazing packaging features. I use it all the time to package collateral projects such as ads or posters or stationery packages etc… I have multiple InDesign files using shared resources/links. I can preflight them and/or package them into a single job folder or have each file packaged into it’s own folder. At $140.00 it paid for itself in the first week I had it.