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Hi, everybody! David Dilling from Markzware.
Today's tip is how to merge multiple InDesign files into one document,
for lack of better words.
Many of our Q2ID customers,
our QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign plugin customers,
are used to, in modern versions of QuarkXPress 9 and 10,
to have tabbed individual layouts, all within one layout document,
one .qxp, and they ask,
"Well, how can we do that in InDesign?"
Now, Q2ID, as you can see in the video I'll link to
and maybe clip into here for a moment,
will convert all of those multiple layouts in one layout within QuarkXPress.
It will be converted into individual InDesign files.
Well, what people would like, just like in Quark,
those individual files to be all in one file.
How can we do that in Adobe InDesign CC,
or even CS6, or CS5.5, CS5?
That's what we're going to show you today, how you can do that.
Now, what I'm opening up here is one QuarkXPress document.
In one QuarkXPress document, there are multiple tabs up top.
These are called, you know, these are called layout tabs.
These are all individual layouts
within one file.
Now, as far as I can see, InDesign doesn't really have that, per se.
Well, they do and it's called a book file. I'm going to show you that,
but they don't have this exact, you know, feature where
you have one file with multiple tabs.
What InDesign has, and I'll show you now,
that looks similar, is this.
If I open up two of those menues, which I've converted with Q2ID,
and you can see in another video,
if I open up two of those,
what you see is it looks like one file,
but, as you just saw, it was two files I opened.
So, you can't make these, you can't...
There's no, like, Merge into One,
or there's no Save As,
you know, Combine, or whatever,
It will just save, individually, each file.
Because for translators, it's very useful to have everything like Quark has,
one file with the same layout but different languages, you know.
And the way you can do that is a book file.
And let me show you how that works.
What we're going to do in InDesign is go File > New > Book.
And let's call that Book 1,
to our Desktop.
What you get is this, this here panel.
And the way you make a book is you just, you can hit here (+) add files,
Add Document.
And you can select, okay, say, I want to add those two menu items in there.
Click OK.
You do have to save them again.
So, I'm just going to give them a slightly different name.
And it's warning us there are missing fonts and whatnot.
And it basically imports those files into this book, here.
And what you can do from there, you can, you can save the book out,
you could print the book,
you could add more documents, you could remove documents.
So, if we save the book,
we quit out of the book and we go back to our Desktop,
then we have the book file, here.
We open it up and we get this again, right?
So, that's a book file.
You can make individual chapters and all of that.
What you can do is you can click on any of these items,
or you can select both, double click,
and what you get is both items now active and open
in InDesign.
So, by creating a book, you get the same sort of tabbed layouts
that you have in QuarkXPress 9 or 10,
but now you have it in InDesign.
So, it's a little bit of an extra step than Quark,
but this is a solution for InDesign users,
which particularly have used Q2ID to convert their Quark 9 or 10 files
into InDesign CC, CS6, even CS5.5, etc.,
and you can use the Book feature to tab everything together,
have tab layouts.
And then, from there, you can do anything you want.
You can output these files, you know, you can print, etc.
That's the quick tip of the day:
how to get a tabbed layout-like feature in InDesign, just like Quark,
by using the Book feature,
how to merge multiple InDesign files into one.
If you need more information on Markzware's Q2ID,
to get your Quark files into Adobe InDesign,
just go over to markzware.com/products/q2id/
and, there, you get all kinds of information on how you can do that.
We have some other products that you may be interested in,
as an InDesign user,
such as our PDF to InDesign,
which will convert PDF files right into Adobe InDesign.
Very, very useful.
Thank you. David Dilling from Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!