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February 9, 2017
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How to combine multiple adobe Indesign documents ?

  • February 9, 2017
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Dear Sir/Madam

PLEASE HELP.

How could we combine multiple adobe indesign documents into one pdf into adobe indesign cs6.

Please note : I don't want to use book and adobe acrobat. I want to use only adobe indesign cs6 or cc.

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    @Willi Adelberger

    See in the first post -

    >> Please note : I don't want to use book and adobe acrobat.

    Topic starter want the spherical horse in a vacuum.

    Don't want merging. Want some as you can do in the MS Explorer with .doc files - select files - right click - print.

    I think that is a task for some script writer.

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    jane-e
    jane-e
    Brainiac
    February 9, 2017

    joginderk27108121 wrote:

    Dear Sir/Madam

    PLEASE HELP.

    How could we combine multiple adobe indesign documents into one pdf into adobe indesign cs6.

    Please note : I don't want to use book and adobe acrobat. I want to use only adobe indesign cs6 or cc.

    To sum up:

    You can use the book feature and make a PDF of the two documents. (non-destructive)

    You can use Acrobat or another PDF editor to merge the PDFs (non-destructive)

    You can combine the documents in InDesign using the Pages panel menu and moving pages (this could possibly cause problems)

      Willi Adelberger
      Willi Adelberger
      Adobe Expert
      February 9, 2017

      Combining PDFs later in Acrobat may cause much bigger files than exporting an INDB as embedded fonts could be doubled and other shared resources will be saved several times, at least for each of them once. So it is better to export from an INDB.

      Willi Adelberger
      Willi Adelberger
      Adobe Expert
      February 9, 2017

      Why do you not want the book functionality? IT IS PART OF INDESIGN! You don't need a different program. That is the easiest way.
      It seems to me, that you don't know what the INDB functionality means in InDesign. Please learn it to use. That is the simplest solution.

      Willi Adelberger
      Willi Adelberger
      Adobe Expert
      February 9, 2017

      Create an INDB InDesign Book File, and add all INDD into that. Export your PDF from the INDB Book Panel Menu.

        Geоrge
        GeоrgeCorrect answer
        Brainiac
        February 9, 2017

        @Willi Adelberger

        See in the first post -

        >> Please note : I don't want to use book and adobe acrobat.

        Topic starter want the spherical horse in a vacuum.

        Don't want merging. Want some as you can do in the MS Explorer with .doc files - select files - right click - print.

        I think that is a task for some script writer.

        Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner
          Eric Dumas
          Eric Dumas
          Brainiac
          February 9, 2017

          I am not sure why you want to avoid the solutions offered.

          Unless you import your InDesign files into a single InDesign; InDesign does not really have a function to collate and compile several files into one other than the Book feature.

          Maybe if you explained why you want to avoid the InDesign book feature we could help you better.

          Thanks

            cinziamarotta
            cinziamarotta
            Participating Frequently
            February 9, 2017

            Hi joginderk,

            Why don't you want to use the Book panel? It would be the best workaround.

            Geоrge
            Geоrge
            Brainiac
            February 9, 2017

            you can place indd into indd.

            http://indesignsecrets.com/zanelli-releases-multipageimporter-for-importing-both-pdf-and-indd-files.php

            Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner
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            joginderk27108121Author
            New Participant
            February 9, 2017

            I don't want to combine both .indd files into a .indd document. I wanted to generate a merged pdf of both .indd files.

            Just Shoot Me
            Just Shoot Me
            Brainiac
            February 9, 2017

            joginderk27108121 wrote:

            I don't want to combine both .indd files into a .indd document. I wanted to generate a merged pdf of both .indd files.

            Then you will need to Save/Print both InDesign documents as PDFs and then use some type of PDF creator/editor program to combine those 2 PDF documents into one PDF.

            No other way around it. Of course you could take the suggestion from above to combine the 2 ID documents into one ID document then Save/Print that document as a PDF.

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