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• • May 6, 2015 at 1:04 am #75194
    Anonymous

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    Hi All.

    We have a large 400 page master catalog broken up into Chapters of about 50 pages each, containing a range of products pages within.

    I am looking to make a smaller catalog that is focused on a few of the products across the various chapters but that still references the master catalog content chapters to avoid issues with content quality and updating etc.

    Is it possible to use the book function in Indesign to create a book that grabs individual pages from the chapter documents? For example, we have a section on piping that contains 30 pages and I only want to use 4 of those 30 pages in this new smaller catalog, can I single them out via the book feature at all?

    Also open to the use of plug-ins to achieve this.

    Thanks.

  • May 6, 2015 at 12:12 pm #75204
    Justin Sligh

    Member

    Chris,

    Are your chapters individual InDesign files within a book or one single InDesign file.

    If the desired pages always exist at the beginning of your chapters, you could break out “subchapter” InDesign files and then create a separate book that only includes those desired portions.

    Existing Master Catalog book(400 pages, chapters of 50 pages):
    Chapter 1
    Chapter 2
    Chapter 3
    Chapter 4
    Chapter 5
    Chapter 6
    Chapter 7
    Chapter 8

    Broken out, as well as new Master Catalog book:
    Chapter 1a
    Chapter 1b
    Chapter 2a
    Chapter 2b
    Chapter 3a
    Chapter 3b
    Chapter 4a
    Chapter 4b
    Chapter 5a
    Chapter 5b
    Chapter 6a
    Chapter 6b
    Chapter 7a
    Chapter 7b
    Chapter 8a
    Chapter 8b

    Smaller catalog book from the same files:
    Chapter 1a
    Chapter 2a
    Chapter 3a
    Chapter 4a
    Chapter 5a
    Chapter 6a
    Chapter 7a
    Chapter 8a

    Xa would have the new chapter marker
    Xb would continue from the previous (see book preferences)

    If you keep your catalog details in a database, which can export to XML, you can automate your catalog. That would support a sub query solution to your problem.

  • May 7, 2015 at 5:40 am #75214
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    How about importing selected pages from the Master Document to the small Catalogue file. This way they will remain consistent and any change in the Master Document will pop-up a message that something needs updating.

  • May 7, 2015 at 6:14 am #75209
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    I would suggest to link/place the pages of the Master InDesign Document to the smaller Catalogue InDesign file. This way it will remain consistent and if there is any change in the Master document, then you’ll be prompted that something needs to be updated.

  • May 8, 2015 at 5:29 am #75233
    Justin Sligh

    Member

    BeeBaron,

    Masood’s suggestion is a great idea.

    If you had a sample showing what your content looked like, what the smaller selection looked like, and where it is located within each section, we could narrow down the best solution.

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