Indesign linking to other indesign document

Question

Please can someone help me out. I am so fraustrated.

I have designed one indesign document with individual pages all with different people and information. (Doc A)

I have another indesign doc (Doc B) where I have placed Doc A - and laid 6 up on 1 page all in a specific order. So the artwork is linked.

When I make changes to doc A - I expect the changes to filter through to Doc B and keep the correct order of the pages/people.

But when I relink - the pages (doc a) change order and mess everything up in Doc B.

Not too sure why this is happening? Is there a way to keep the links linking to the same pages - but update artwork.

Robert at ID-Tasker · Answer

Maybe your documents got corrupted?

Try IDMLing on both - export as IDML, open, save with a new name - add "_NEW" before ".indd" - do not overwrite your original files.

Then re-name your original files - add "_OLD" before ".indd" and then rename your new files - remove "_NEW" so they have the same names as original files.

Open your new IDML'ed file and update.

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