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• • December 12, 2016 at 1:51 am #90458
    Charles Parrington

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    Hi All

    Is anyone aware of the limitation in the number of Indesign Layouts that can be included into a single InDesign CC2015 book? We have a client needing to pagination anything up to a 20,000 page catalog and this will need creating many books using InDesign Server.

    Thanks in advance

  • December 12, 2016 at 10:46 am #90476
    David Blatner

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    I don’t know what the maximum number of publications in a book file is.
    (You can find some other interesting limits here: https://creativepro.com/infinity-in-indesign.php )

    But I wonder, if you’re doing this with InDesign Server, why you need to make a book file. You can control all the aspects of the documents you would normally do with a book (page numbering, colors, etc) with Server and scripts, without making a book file.

  • December 12, 2016 at 10:43 pm #90503
    Charles Parrington

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    Thanks David
    The reason for creating a book is that there are many elements that are created from a single XML file that then need to be assembled, a TOC created, covers, dividers, then we need to make sure that there are booklets created for “printers” sections, 128 page booklets, each with a cover and back page. So we decided that using the Book model would be best. A single Indesign layout is not possible as you can imagine.
    But we are not aware of the “Server and Scripts” that you refer to, we are good in InDesign desktop only, do you have a suggestion as to where we can familiarise ourselves with these, as there may greatly improve the performance of the process as well, as creating a book to this sort of size, using out method, takes up to 5 hours running on IDS.

    regards

  • December 13, 2016 at 7:07 am #90509
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    You said you were using InDesign Server… which is a headless version of InDesign that is run entirely using scripts. Is that the case? Are you working with a reputable InDesign Server integrator/coder who can build this system for you?

    Or maybe I misunderstand and you’re using the normal version of InDesign (which has a user interface… you know, what we all use).

    Either way, if the books are 128 pages, that’s only 165 documents in 20,000 pages, so I think a book file can probably handle that.

  • March 7, 2017 at 6:36 am #92707
    Charles Parrington

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    Hi David
    Just to follow on from above, another question? Are you aware of a way to paginate say 128 pages in a document, then stop the pagination, open a new document then paginate another 128 pages and so on until the source file is exhausted? In very large document we are trying to get around the 9999 pages in an indesign document by making up smaller documents then using the Book functionality to assemble the final book. But I am not sure how one stops the pagination process after a specific number of pages and then continue into a new document all within process. Yes we do have good InDesign Server scripting knowledge available.

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