Publishing Books
In This Chapter
ᮣ Creating books
ᮣ Tackling chapters
ᮣ Printing your masterpieces
ᮣ Numbering pages and sections
Not only is InDesign useful for short documents like ads and newsletters, but it also can comfortably handle longer, multichapter documents, such as books and manuals. The most common and easiest way to build longer documents, especially those created by more than one author or contributor, is to create multiple InDesign documents and then assemble them into a larger book.
InDesign’s book feature lets you
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See who is working on each chapter (that is, on each document in the book) and when.
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Update styles and swatches across documents for consistency.
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Update page numbers across multiple documents.
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Create a unified table of contents and a unified index for multiple documents, using the techniques in Chapter 20.
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Easily print or create a PDF file from all the chapters of a book. Creating a Book
In InDesign, a book is a specific type of file that you create to track chapters or multiple documents that make up the book. Using InDesign’s book panel, you can add, open and edit, rearrange, and print chapters of the book. The book panel is nice for workgroups because multiple users can open the same book and access different chapters; it also works well if you are a single user working on a multichapter book.
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To create a new book, choose File➪New➪Book. The New Book dialog box lets you specify a location for the book and give it a name. Click Save to create and open the book.
You can open an existing book by using the File➪Open command (Ô+O
or Ctrl+O). When viewing folder and disk contents via the Mac’s Finder or Windows’s Explorer, you can also double-click a book’s icon or filename to open it.
If multiple books are open, they now each appear in a separate tabbed pane in a floating panel. If you want them to appear in individual panels, as in previous versions of InDesign, you can just drag their tab out of the panel, and InDesign will create a new panel for each dragged-out pane. To always have InDesign open or create books in separate panels, disable the Open Documents as Tabs option in the Interface pane of the Preferences dialog box (choose InDesign➪Preferences➪Interface [Ô+K] on the Mac or Edit➪Preferences➪Interface [Ctrl+K] in Windows). Note that changing this option also means that any documents created or opened also appear in separate windows.
To close a book’s pane and any book documents that are in it, click the book’s tab to select it and choose Close Book from the flyout menu. If a book displays alone in a panel, simply click its close box. And if you click the close box in a panel with multiple book panes, all the panes are closed along with the panel.
Working with Book Chapters
A new book pane (or panel) is empty — you need to add chapter documents to fill it up. To do so, click the Add Document iconic button — the +
icon on the bottom right of the book panel (see Figure 22-1) — or use the Add Document option in the book panel’s flyout menu. Use the Add Chapter dialog box to locate and select the first chapter you want to add. Click the Add button to make this the first chapter in the book. Repeat this process to add to the book all the chapters you have ready. (You can also add more chapters later.)
Chapters are listed in the book pane in the order in which you add them. You may want to rearrange them to match the actual order of the book project —
especially if you’re numbering the book automatically from start to finish, since InDesign will number them based on their order in the book pane. To rearrange the relative position of chapters, just click and drag chapter names up or down within the pane to put them in the desired order.
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