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Mark.y.Mark
Mark.y.Mark
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May 23, 2024
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Info/Help needed: Linked documents in parent page across multiple documents

  • May 23, 2024
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Hi all,

 

I would like your opinion/help about the following;

I am working on 10 seperate manuals, which all have different product-installation-steps to show but the warning-text and the manufacturer information is the same. Some of the manuals may have some extra child-safety warnings. So I was thinking to work like this:

 

Create a template with parentpages for the manuals. There could be 3 parentpages (1 for warningtext, 1 for manufacturer info and 1 for extra child-safety warning). I can the apply the needed parentpages to the different document(s). This (imo) is the fastest way to have all the info the same, since it sometimes needs a little change or a new language to it. 

 

I only remain with two questions; 

A: Am I thinking the right way?

B: How does Indesign work with the images(.ai-files)  used in the parent pages (where does IND store them)? Or could the .ai files be embedded in the seperate manuals? 

 

Thanks in advance!

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    Correct answer Willi Adelberger

    Be aware, that text or content should never be on the master page. Those elements have to be on the page. E.g. if you export the document to EPUB or PDF for screen, content readers would ignore those parts or would not be visible at all.

    I would make a template and children of the parent template for the diffeerent type of pages.

    But for content I have different solutions:

    1. Solution: Export those contents to InCoipy content, and place it into the other documents. To edit you have to check the content out, edit it and check it in from any document. You need only to update it in other document as you would do with images outside of InDesign.
    2. Solution: Like the first one. But additional: Save a document with common content as template INDT and start a new document from this template.
    3. Solution: Place the content in a document and save it in a LIbrary, either a CC Library or in an old INDL InDesign Library. Place it from there. I would use also linked content as in Solution 1.

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    Willi Adelberger
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    Willi AdelbergerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 23, 2024

    Be aware, that text or content should never be on the master page. Those elements have to be on the page. E.g. if you export the document to EPUB or PDF for screen, content readers would ignore those parts or would not be visible at all.

    I would make a template and children of the parent template for the diffeerent type of pages.

    But for content I have different solutions:

    1. Solution: Export those contents to InCoipy content, and place it into the other documents. To edit you have to check the content out, edit it and check it in from any document. You need only to update it in other document as you would do with images outside of InDesign.
    2. Solution: Like the first one. But additional: Save a document with common content as template INDT and start a new document from this template.
    3. Solution: Place the content in a document and save it in a LIbrary, either a CC Library or in an old INDL InDesign Library. Place it from there. I would use also linked content as in Solution 1.
    Mark.y.Mark
    Mark.y.MarkAuthor
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    May 23, 2024

    Hi Willi Adelberger,

     

    Thank you for your response. I think i will try to combine solution 1 and 3 since I think we will be making more of these manuals in the future. 

     

     

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