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• • February 5, 2016 at 2:27 pm #81583
    Jeremy Brown

    Member

    Hi all.
    I’ve got about 30 documents that all more or less use the same styles and master pages. I chose to do them separately because I have to export each to Acrobat as interactive PDFs so that a database can read the text in the fields or put text into the fields. And I need the metadata to be individual for each document.

    But now that we’re doing revisions, the client wants to revise every document.

    Is it possible to link all documents together to use the same styles and master pages? Is that what a long document idea is for?

    Thanks.

  • February 5, 2016 at 3:29 pm #81587
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yes, you can do that… at least for some features:
    https://creativepro.com/synchronize-multiple-indesign-documents.php

  • February 5, 2016 at 3:33 pm #81589
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    You can put them into a Book. (.indb file)

    File->New->Book

    Drag your files into the new Book palette.

    It takes a little learning to understand how it works, but it sounds like a good idea for you. Also, when you export the entire Book as a PDF, you can then Extract all the Pages separately in Acrobat.

    Hope that helps.

  • February 5, 2016 at 3:34 pm #81590
    Colleen Shannon

    Member

    (Always try Mr Blatner’s suggestion first, though!)

  • February 22, 2016 at 8:31 am #82162
    Jeremy Brown

    Member

    Thanks all. I’ve gotten this going. Appreciate your help.

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