Long time reader, first time poster.
I’m pretty sure I have a common task, but I’m struggling to find the right search query terms to uncover posts here (or elsewhere) which address how best to attack it.
I have created the first book in a series (not a capital-B InDesign Book, just a regular ID file).
I now need to create the second book (so want to reuse the page sizes, margins, paragraph styles, etc, etc). The second book was previously published, so the client has supplied an InDesign file.
I thought this would make my task pretty easy. But I’m not sure how to efficiently reuse/apply all my old settings.
Should I:
1. Create a template from my first doc and apply that to the supplied file?
2. Import the contents of the supplied file into a new template?
3. Move Pages into a duplicate of the existing doc?
4. (Some other way)
I have tried 3, thinking that I could append the pages of the supplied file to the end of a duplicate of the first file, and then delete the supplied doc’s Paragraph Styles and assign one of my existing styles each time. But I’ve already hit two hurdles:
1. Whilst I forced the pages to resize with the Move pages dialog box, applying the existing Master Pages did not resize the text box to match the margin settings
2. The supplied doc has inline italics (not Character Styles) which were lost
These could be overcome manually, but I’m hoping somebody could point out a more elegant way to approach the task.
Thanks
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