Creating a book file or not?

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    • #86212
      Hon Mr Road
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      Hi

      I’ve about nine separate books created with indesign. I now have the task of joining them all together into one “large book”. From what I understand creating a book file is the way to go.

      I have 2 questions

      1) If I do this am I correct in saying that if I update a smaller books text that it will automatically update in the large book too?

      2) Each of my smaller books have different styles. Its been a learning curve so I created similar styles in each book but used different names etc. I am under a little pressure to make this “large book”. Given the above how time consuming would it be to go about creating(and learning) a new book file system on average?

      I know question 2 is a little relative but if the learning curve is steep or I have to create a whole bunch of new styles then it might be better to do all this after the current project.

      Any advice would be appreciated

    • #86213
      Gert Verrept
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      1. indeed, as long as you update the book file too. If not al little yellow warning sign when you open the book file will tell you a “chapter” has been changed.

      2. Every “chapter” can have his own styles, no problem I think. Since you didn’t know that it would become a book, styles can be different.

      A book file = all the files are still separate items, grouped under a new name (kind of “virtual folder with pointers to the different files which make up the book”).
      Learning curve? Not so long, just create the book file, add the chapters, save the book file. Just don’t sync the styles, so all the styles in the different chapters will not be affected.

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