Exporting part of InDesign book as Adobe PDF

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November 5, 2020
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Should I be able to export selected pages of my InDesign book to Adobe? In the dialog, the option to select All or Pages is greyed out

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi J5FC1,

with the help of a script by Peter Kahrel you could also export a selection of documents of an InDesign book file:

Export book documents to individual PDF files

Peter Kahrel | Last update: 21 June 2020: Added support for interactive PDF export.

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/pdf_individuals.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

J

J5FC1Author

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Thanks to both of you. I now know that (a) this is normal, and (b) there are workarounds.

L

Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi J5FC1,

with the help of a script by Peter Kahrel you could also export a selection of documents of an InDesign book file:

Export book documents to individual PDF files

Peter Kahrel | Last update: 21 June 2020: Added support for interactive PDF export.

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/pdf_individuals.html

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @J5FC1:

The two options in the book window panel menu are Export Book to PDF and Export Selected Documents to PDF. You cannot specify page ranges with those commands. Instead, open a chapter within a book to export a range of pages, or export the entire book to PDF and then Extract only the pages that you need from the PDF in Acrobat and delete the original PDF with all of the pages.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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