In this InDesign how-to video, Mike Rankin shows how to create a flatplan—or book map—to keep track of pages in a long document, like a magazine. He demos how to print the organized spreads to PostScript, then turn that file into a PDF that can be easily shared and viewed. Lastly, Mike explains how to combine multiple documents into one flatplan using InDesign’s Book feature.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on February 7, 2025
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