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• • April 30, 2015 at 8:59 am #75075
    allan harter

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    If anyone can answer this I would be forever grateful.. I’m at the end of my rope!

    We have an 18 document, 1200pg product catalog – indesign book. This is a huge file of 1.6gb and it does work. This is filled with hyperlinks, styles, and we use easycatalog for our pricing as well.

    We also have monthly flyers that are 7 pagers and also another catalog that is a 300pg for our retail customers.

    This is where it gets tricky and weird.

    We want to copy the images, text, pricing etc from the catalog and paste it into a new document for our flyer for example. Easy right? Bam, done. Change the pricing make it look a little different etc and lets print!..

    Then comes this odd “link” of documents. So a flyer may consist of products from over 5-10 documents within that catalog. I assume copy & pasting severs that tie to the original source document since we arent placing etc. It does not. If I tried copying text from the flyer it will literally load for 10 minutes.. open up all the documents this SKU number has ever been linked to.. so every past flyer, every catalog etc and then most of the time its so many documents that it will crash. When I try to export to pdf I need hyperlinks.. it will crash because it opens up every document. Even with easycatalog (this is more their issue i think?) it will say I have no fields in the flyer which is true.. but then I export and indesign says yes you do have easycatalog fields.. because indesign is counting the source documents!!!

    This is causing a huge issue for us. How can we continue to make flyers etc from our source documents with no tie!? It wont let me convert to /idml and back to .indd either because it crashes from opening up all 18 documents!!

    Thank you for whomever actually read this entire post. I know I probably would skim it ;)

    Allan Harter

  • May 4, 2015 at 8:32 am #75145
    K Hanes

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    Allan – I have had problems with Indesign crashing for years after the page count gets that large. I usually split my large catalogs into two or three files, then export as pdf files and merge there. I’ve also learned over the years to keep all my current “links” for the current year’s catalog in one folder (package the finished catalog and save the links folder as your master for the year). That enables you to link product photos quickly when you do a copy/paste and the link doesn’t follow. It also sounds like your styles palette may have conflicting settings. When you copy/paste it usually brings the existing styles into the new document, those would need to be checked/redefined. Hope this helps, I’m no help with hyperlinks or easycatalog, sorry.

  • May 5, 2015 at 2:11 am #75169
    Barry Monks

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    Could you make a copy of the original doc and then delete the pages you don’t want?

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