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• • September 3, 2017 at 10:21 am #97705
    Jeremy Ross

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    Hi,

    I am new to this forum. I want to ask the experts out there what they think is better when creating a big and long portfolio for art and design subjects. I study interior architecture and as I go into my final year I will be creating two big, bold, detailed and perhaps long portfolios. No more then 100 pages long.

    I have been doing some research on-line about one document vs book option for ID. What would peoples recommendation be? I know for a fact that my two portfolios will be split in to several sections e.g research, development, final design and therefore I thought it would be better to make each section/chapter into separate documents.

    They will be quite detailed so is there an option in ID for it to be faster. By perhaps reducing quality on screen? Is there also any kind of tips for things like that an just general awareness? I used ID for the first time last year and found that on occasions it would freeze. I just don’t want to loose bits work when I did on rare occasions.

  • September 4, 2017 at 12:51 pm #97724
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I generally recommend keeping all the pages of a document together in a single InDesign file when possible. Creating multiple documents in a “book” publication is okay, but is often more trouble than it’s worth. 100 pages is no problem for a single InDesign doc.

    As for freezing and losing work: Train your fingers to hit Command-S (or Ctrl S on windows) to save every five minutes. And every so often make a backup of your whole file just in case.

  • September 4, 2017 at 11:40 pm #97727
    Niels JÌürgen Pedersen

    Participant

    I agree with David – i often work on documents containing moer than 400 pages, sometimes up to 600. All in one doc. I have used the book option, but only when the document was getting so large and complex, that it slowed everything down working on it.

    Use “save” often – and sometimes use “save as” and overwrite the file – that reduces the file size a lot :)

  • September 5, 2017 at 4:10 pm #97772
    Bonnie Britt

    Member

    I concur with what David and Niels said. Consider adding random access memory.

  • September 5, 2017 at 5:23 pm #97784
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Single document is much easier to me. I frequently do 800+ page books.

  • September 7, 2017 at 6:53 am #97804
    Design Dept

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    Talking of the Book pallet – how do you get this into alphabetical order?

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