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• • March 22, 2024 at 2:54 pm #14401313
    Matthew Paquette

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    Hello! We’re about to start on a rather large project. We’re working on a Tabletop Role Playing Game (TTRPG) and the core rulebook is just over 300 pages in Word. In order to keep things manageable, I was thinking of setting things up like this:

    Each chapter of the book will be a separate INDD file.
    Format the Word document in a way which the styles can be imported into InDesign.

    The client is likely going to continue to develop the book in Word and will send a chapter or spread to be updated rather than sending individual edits in the InDesign file.

    There are going to be a lot of tables and other specially formatted blocks that will need unique styles beyond what we can do in Word. Here is a good example of the kind of document we’re laying out: https://archive.org/details/dungeon-masters-guide/Dungeon%20Master%27s%20Guide/page/n3/mode/2up

    What I’m wondering is how can I best set ourselves up to succeed?

    Thanks all!

    Matt

  • March 22, 2024 at 3:32 pm #14401314
    David Blatner

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    Hey Matthew, your timing is impeccable… we’re doing a full-day event called “The InDesign + Long Documents Summit” on April 5, and a lot of it will cover the stuff you’re trying to do. I highly recommend it:

    The InDesign + Long Documents Summit

  • March 22, 2024 at 5:00 pm #14401316
    Matthew Paquette

    Participant

    LOL, Thanks @david! I literally JUST saw this like 30 min. ago! MOSDEF will be registering.
    Cheers!

    Matt

  • March 24, 2024 at 1:46 am #14401434
    Steve Davis

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    You sound like you’re well on the way in breaking it down into more manageable parts.
    If you have a “book” then make sure your styles are being synced to the leading document.

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