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When and when not to use an InDesign book file

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    • February 17, 2021 at 5:50 am #14336099
      Latte Goldstein
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      Hello, my question may simply be a matter of personal preference, but I am wondering, in general, when is it better to create an InDesign book format rather than running text in a single document file.

      I am currently typesetting a book with 45 chapters, TOC, prologue, epilogue etc. Extent IRO 300 pages. I usually start by chopping up all the chapters in the Word doc into individual doc files, then creating a book file, creating separate InDesign doc files for each section/chapter. On this occasion many of the chapters are very small and I’m wondering how others may handle this scenario.

      Thanks for reading!

    • February 17, 2021 at 7:26 am #14336106
      Dieter Stockert
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      I have set documents with 500 or 600 pages and a lot of chapters (mostly with a separat story for each chapter) in one InDesign document without any problems.

    • February 17, 2021 at 7:35 am #14336107
      Latte Goldstein
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      Thanks Dieter. Just wondering, what do you mean or how do you work it, when you say ‘with a separate story for each chapter’?

    • February 17, 2021 at 8:30 am #14336112
      Dieter Stockert
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      A story means all the text that’s within text frames that are threaded together. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWYgxy1SC7I But this will only be practical for chapters that begin on a new page. Anyhow, I had no problems with books of a few hundred pages and only one story for the main text.

    • February 17, 2021 at 8:44 am #14336114
      Latte Goldstein
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      Ah, great, I see what you mean. I wondered if you were just inserting ‘page breaks’ with all the text in a single thread. Thanks for your input!! Much appreciated.

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