Reply To: Collect individual files contained in a book in one .indd document

Here is the script!
https://creativepro.com/downloads/MergeFiles-2016.zip

It’s a jsx.bin file. After you download it, unzip it, and put MergeFiles-2016.jsxbin in your scripts folder. Double-click it to run, and you’ll get a dialog box with some options.

And I’ve done an InDesign Secrets tips video demo-ing it for Lynda.com too … not sure when it’ll come out though. In the meantime I’ll do a post on the blog with screen shots, but probably won’t get to that for a few days.

BTW I asked Michael, the author, for permission to distribute (thank you Michael!), as well as his Paypal account name if you’d like to say thanks for this one, and/or contribute to his ongoing script development work: biozaichenko@gmail.com

About the script, Michael told me,
“The way it works is… run the script. It will pop a panel. You can
choose from “all open docs”, “folder with files” or “a book” if it
is open. From there it is self-explanatory. Features that you should
be aware of is that up and down keys move items up and down in the
list. Delete button, removes them from the list. It chooses the
first file as a “template” for the rest. I’m open for feature
suggestions.”

AM