Place InDesign spread in another InDesign Document

[bfrankphoto]

Right now, you can place individual pages from an InDesign document into another layout, not not spreads. Can that be changed?

[oleh_melnyk]

As far as I understand - inserted InDesign pages act exactly as it was PDF or image - they are not editable inside InDesign... so you can export pages from original InDesign document to PDF as spreads, and then paste them into your new InDesign document.

Optionally, InDesign script can be made that will automate insertion of 2 selected pages, so it will work like spread insertion, and what is more important - in that case, you would be able to insert multiple spreads at once 😉

[bfrankphoto]

Inserting InDesign PDFs is what I do now. I'm trying to get away from that so the spreads would be updated whenever the those layouts are edited.

[oleh_melnyk]

Have you tried New > Book workaround?

Originally, this feature allows to make different book chapters in different InDesign files, then merge them together...

Well, if you, for example, working on the magazine - you can make different articles in different InDesign files, and have different adverts in different files, then combine the final magazine with New > Book feature