Creating book files – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Creating book files
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Create a book file
Add documents to a book file
Manage book files
Synchronize book documents
Convert book files from previous InDesign versions
Number pages, chapters, and paragraphs in a book
Print or output a book file
Create a book file
A book file is a collection of documents that can share styles, swatches, master pages, and other items. You can sequentially number pages in
booked documents, print selected documents in a book, or export them to PDF. One document can belong to multiple book files.
One of the documents added to a book file is the style source. By default, the style source is the first document in the book, but you can select a
new style source at any time. When you synchronize documents in a book, the specified styles and swatches from the style source replace those
in other booked documents.
Michael Murphy provides a video tutorial about creating books at
1. Choose File > New > Book.
2. Type a name for the book, specify a location, and then click Save.
The Book panel appears. The book file is saved with the file name extension .indb.
3. Add documents to the book file.
Add documents to a book file
When you create a book file, it opens in the Book panel. The Book panel is the working area of a book file, where you add, remove, or rearrange
documents.
1. Choose Add Document in the Book panel menu, or click the plus button
at the bottom of the Book panel.
2. Select the Adobe InDesign document or documents you want to add, and then click Open.
You can drag and drop files onto the Book panel from an Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS) window. You can also drag a document
from one book to another. Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) to copy the document.
3. If you included documents created in earlier versions of InDesign, they will be converted to Adobe InDesign CS5 format when added to the
book. In the Save As dialog box, specify a new name for the converted document (or leave the name as is), and then click Save.
You must convert Adobe PageMaker or QuarkXPress documents before adding them to the book file.
4. If necessary, change the order of the documents in the panel by dragging them up or down to the appropriate locations in the list.
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