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• • May 9, 2016 at 11:14 am #84711
    AaronA

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    Unfortunately, I’m working on inherited files that used a plug-in I don’t own, so I can’t use the Book function (‘Book operations will be disabled until… you install the missing plug-ins’). And thus I can’t make a Book-wide linked TOC, which, to say the least, sucks for a 250-page document with 8 files.

    I can make a chapter-based TOC for each file, of course, and then paste those into my actual front TOC. But when I make each PDF separately and then combine in Acrobat into one file, those TOC links don’t work at all.

    While I could edit each link in Acrobat, this is a hugely tedious process with (from what I can tell) no simple automation options.

    Any ideas?

  • May 9, 2016 at 3:51 pm #84718
    Kelly Vaughn

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    If you save the files as IDML, and then save again as INDD, that will remove the missing plugin warning, and the book function will be restored.

    Peter Kahrel write a free script to batch convert files: https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html

  • May 9, 2016 at 4:10 pm #84720
    AaronA

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    I’ve heard that one, too, Kelly (and thanks for posting). Unfortunately when I reopen the .idml file the flow has changed dramatically; it’s changing the applied base object style(s) for each text frame so each frame has inset applied. No idea why.

    When I remove the inset small bits of the text are still flowing differently. As the book’s already indexed, this is a problem!

    I did test the book part though and it seems to solve that. But with these issues — and the potential for others I might miss — it may be as fast for me to link each TOC entry by hand.

    (CS6, by the way.)

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