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    • October 3, 2012 at 11:01 pm #63288
      yvlasova@gmail.com
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      I’ve got a large project I am working on.

      It’s a catalogue, which is being split into two different versions.

      Version 1 – will have about 400+ pages

      Version 2 – will have about 400+ pages (of the version 1) plus some additional content of about 150 + pages.

      They will have different covers and will be targeting slightly different markets.

      Currently I am manually separating the content into different documents.

      However would really like to know is there a way to hide the parts of the content in version 1 that belong to version 2 whilst allowing reflow of pages?

      As I am absolutely dreading the moment I have to put that document back together again and reshuffle everything.

      I have considered the conditional text, but it’s only covers text not images or tables (not properly anyway).

      Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

      I am using InDesign CS5, but upgrading to CS6 in a next couple of days.

      Hope it's all makes sense.

      Thank you.

      Regards,

      CABAC

    • October 16, 2012 at 2:53 am #63369
      Anonymous
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      I'm assuming the layouts are the same size.(?) If so, an option would be creating a third document with the same page size (and bleed) which would basically act as a container for your 2 versions. You can directly place your existing InDesign layouts onto the new document and effectively linking the two versions together. You can place/link page 5 from version 1 and page 6 from version 2, for example.

      Your version 2 doesn't need to be version 1 + the additional pages. You can keep version 1 as is and just create the pages that will be different. You can even do separate files per section/chapter (which I think would be easier in the long run as it would be more organized). And of course, as the files are linked, any future modifications to the versions 1 & 2 will also reflect on version 3.

      You may need to modify your pagination, though. I would suggest creating a separate layer for the page numbers (on versions 1 & 2) so you can just turn them off when placing onto 'version 3'.

      Hope this helps solve your problem.

      Vin

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