Reply To: Problem when merging multiple documents

I know lot of folks use and like the book feature in Indesign. I also think it’s a great feature, as I hate having one huge document.

But many of the big publishers don’t want us to use the book feature. They want and insist on a single large document (all text threaded).

This makes it a royal pain in the butt when they outsource to someone else and only chapters are threaded (so we have to rethread the entire document). Or when we are given 20 files and have to make them into one.

And they insist ONE document.

Even worse is when they buy the rights to a book (either done in Spain, UK, Australia, or somewhere) and there are no style sheets written or master pages (i.e., all running heads done by hand). We have to recreate the files and write the style sheets and make master pages. And make one document.

And all this has to be done in two days.

Sorry for ranting.