Comments on: Synchronize Multiple InDesign Documents

By: Sarah H.

Sarah H. — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:14:44 +0000

Re: Section Prefixes — I am also experiencing Mary’s problem (above post on 12/11/08) with section prefixes not appearing in the TOC. I am using the Include Section Prefix feature in the Numbering Options. The Chapter TOCs for each individual document work correctly with the section prefix appearing with the page number (e.g. 2-10). However when I try to make a master TOC including all documents in the book (using the same settings and paragraph styles), the section prefixes do not appear with the page numbers. Any way around this?

By: Jennifer Fettig

Jennifer Fettig — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:46:13 +0000

A little off the topic of the post, but in addition to a book, I have a number of other docs in different sizes and shapes to go as one package to the printer. Is it best to put everything together into one book for packaging or to package each separately with duplication of fonts and massive numbers of file directories?

Is there an industry standard for this?

Thanks,
Jennifer

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:49:17 +0000

@Mary: If you’re going to use page number prefixes, but want them in the TOC, you should probably use the Section Prefix feature in the Numbering Options dialog box instead of typing them manually. I think that works…

By: Mary Harvey

Mary Harvey — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:47:18 +0000

I have 6 chapters in my book and 3 Appendices (A-C). The numbering style requires that the prefix section number appear on each page with the page number (e.g. 3-18 or A-4) on the top of each page. I have inserted the variable on the master for each chapter and the numbers appear properly by selecting Use prefis,etc. I add the chapters to the book panel and then attempt to create a TOC- BUT when I create the table of contents only the page number appears, not the section number prefix!

HELP!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:16:02 +0000

Someone else just emailed me with a sample document with this same problem (pages not renumbering properly). The solution: Just choose Update Numbering > Update Page & Section Numbers from the book panel menu. That seems to make it work. Perhaps InDesign just got confused and forgot to update the numbers.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:24:28 +0000

@Bader: It’s hard to say what could be going wrong in your document, but my guess is that if you open the numbering & section dialog box in each document, you’ll find that some are set to Automatic Page Numbering, and some are set to “Start on Page…”.

By: Bader

Bader — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:14:53 +0000

I have 10 docs in a book. However, My book is not numbering the pages in sequence. Every doc is continuing numbering from the preceding doc, only, but I’m not able to get the numbering continues all over the 10 docs. How can I sort that?

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:45:08 +0000

Ah, everything’s “better/easier” with the old, tried, boring techniques. I’m not talking about them, but a Radical Crazy Approach — which works nicely, and isn’t old and boring.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:40:47 +0000

Klaus, if you're talking about printing to PDF, we covered that in this post. But I think Acrobat is probably the better/easier way to go.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:53:18 +0000

David, there actually IS a way to convert a full-color InDesign file, with placed color images, to black-only inside ID and output a fairly decent black-only PDF. So . . . what am I offered for giving up this little trade secret?