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• • July 29, 2010 at 10:51 am #56520
    sherihy

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    I have an inDesign book (INDB file) which consists of 50-ish 1 single-page INDD files. For each single-page file, I have unchecked “start new section” so that when I create a PDF of the book, the numbering is sequential and correct. Every time I add or take away a document from the book, all documents after that one get updated (so that they get the proper numbering). The problem with this: I can't look at my 50 files by timestamp and know which ones have actually had changes to the file (changes besides the page number that is, which is irrelevant to the individual file).

    Is there any way I can set this up differently so that there is no page numbering information stored in the single-page files? And the numbering is just “taken care of” either in the book file or the pdf file?

    Thanks in advance,

    Sheri

  • July 29, 2010 at 1:41 pm #56522
    Theunis De Jong

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    Sheri, if you add, move, or remove one file with the Book panel open, ID automatically will open, change, and close all documents after that one.

    If none of your documents have “Start Page Numbering At” checked (they all have “Automatic Numbering”), ID should correctly renumber them on every edit.

    I've used the Book function for years and only have seen it to fail because of, ehm, 'user error'.

  • July 29, 2010 at 2:40 pm #56523
    sherihy

    Member

    Yes, it does do the page numbering correctly, and as you describe. (but what were you trying to imply??)

    My problem is, I don't want all the subsequent documents to change. Because I have another process where I have to post all of the “changed files” to a website. I can't tell which files have actually changed, since the timestamp has changed on lots of them. See what I mean? There is probably no way around this, but I was just wondering, because it's a pain.

    Sheri

  • July 29, 2010 at 3:03 pm #56524
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Ah, I thought you were wondering if the page numbers get updated correctly.

    No: you cannot have automatic renumbering without having InDesign open and update each document. The only way you could do that is by doing the exact opposite: set the page number manually (but then you cannot move individual documents around anymore).

    The “starting page number” does not 'live' in the Book document, they are stored inside each separate doc, as you can see if you open one of them without opening the Book file first: the starting page number will still be correct in relation to the entire book. The only function of the Book file in this is changing it when necessary.

    That said: if you changed one document but did nothing that ought to affect the other documents, you only have to update that one. The other files may get 'touched' by InDesign (if only to check if the page numbers are still correct) but if your page count did not change, they won't actually be changed.

  • July 29, 2010 at 4:19 pm #56525
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    However, you can turn off Automatic Pagination in the Book panel flyout menu (in book numbering options, if I recall). Work with it turned off, and just renumber before you export or print. At that point, all your modification dates will get updated, but while you're working (before updating the numbers), ID will leave them alone.

  • August 3, 2010 at 1:05 pm #56560
    Ketrinz

    Member

    Just off the subject a bit. But has anyone noticed when using the Book function and creating Bookmarks using the Interactive PDF maker, that the Bookmarks look for the individual document PDF as a reference. Does anyone know a work around for this please. Works fine with the print PDF, but then the other interactivity doesn't work.

  • August 19, 2010 at 1:50 pm #56757
    sherihy

    Member

    David, that is exactly the solution I need. I can turn off auto pagination while I'm working, make a list of changed files, then turn on the auto pagination just before creating the pdf. Thanks so much!!!

    Ketrinz, sorry I don't know anything about Interactive PDF maker.

    Sheri

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