Packaging Placed InDesign Files

Are the same InDesign documents that are placed in that one InDesign document also placed in other documents?

If so, how should that be handled?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi amyn64495472,

hm, that task would require writing a script, I think.

And if this is done once, editing the linked InDesign documents should only be done from the Links folder of the main InDesign document where the InDesign sub-documents are packaged. Don't know if that would make a feasible workflow.

How would you imagine to work with the result of such a packaging file/folder construction?

Did you think that through? What would be your ideal result?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi amyn64495472,

just tested File > Package… with placed InDesign pages in my German InDesign 2021 version 16.0.0.77 on Windows 10.

All is working as expected. The placed InDesign pages were packaged. The Links folder of the package is populated with an InDesign document.

Are you sure that the links for all placed and linked InDesign pages are up-to-date?

Are any or perhaps all of the placed InDesign pages positioned on the pasteboard?

If that's the case the packaging feature will not recognize them. But that's an issue you will also have with placed images. There is a workaround: Just add your InDesign document to a InDesign book file and do the package with the book's packaging feature.

Are any or all of the placed InDesign pages on hidden layers? Or are they set to non-printing?
Then it will depend on the packaging options if the placed pages are added to the package.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

I have run into this as well. I have a few master id files that I place pages from into new id files. 
But when I package and send to print - I get missing asset errors, and the missing assets are the linked id files.

So is placing id files inside an id document NOT a good idea? If they don't package whats the point?

The link was good before you tried to package?