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separately, but are managed by the book file for pagination, indexing,
and other operations. If a customer has used a book file, it’s best to
manage prepress operations such as preflighting across all documents
in a book. This requires using the Book panel, which displays a book’s
individual InDesign documents as a list.
To open a book, choose File > Open and select the book file. Book files
use the .indb file extension. (If you don’t see any file extensions, you
may need to turn on a setting in your operating system that makes file
extensions visible). A book file appears as a panel. The Book panel
command doesn’t appear in the Window menu until a book file has
been opened. If more than one book is open, you’ll see multiple Book
panels. A Book panel’s name is the name of its book file.
To find commands that affect files in a book, look on the Book panel
menu. For example, to preflight a book, you choose Preflight Book from
the Book panel menu. If you choose File > Preflight, you’ll preflight the
active open document only, regardless of the documents selected in the
Book panel. Similarly, the File menu commands to print or export a PDF
file affect the active open document only, not books; to print or export
books you must choose Print or Export commands from the Book
panel menu. The exact name of the commands can change according
to whether or not documents are selected in the Book panel.
Always preflight a book before creating output from it. Alert messages,
such as those about missing fonts and graphics, don’t appear when you
open a book fileonly when you open an individual document that is
governed by a book file.
Note which documents are selected in the book file. Some commands
in the Book panel menu, such as the Preflight Book, Export Book To
PDF, and Print Book commands, operate on the selected documents
only. To preflight, export, or print the entire book, make sure that either
no documents are selected or all documents are selected in the Book
panel. When documents are selected in the Book panel, the Preflight
Book, Export Book To PDF, and Print Book commands appear as the
Preflight Selected Documents, Export Selected Documents to PDF, and
Print Selected Documents commands, respectively.
It’s possible to create a book where the page size and orientation varies
with each document in the book. You may want to verify the page
orientations of your book files before setting up output media by
double-clicking each file in the Book panel to open and check them.
Synchronizing, paginating, and preflighting a book file
A modified icon ( ) appears when an individual document in a book
has changed since the last time the book was saved. When a document
in a book has been modified, it’s no longer certain that the book’s
pagination is correct because pages may have been added to or deleted
from the modified document. For this reason, the only way to resolve a
modified icon is to repaginate the book, so that InDesign can determine
whether pages were added or deleted from the modified document
and update the book accordingly.
Before you repaginate a particular book for the first time, preflight all
the constituent documents in the book first to ensure that all necessary
fonts are present. Select all the document names in the Book panel, and
choose Preflight Book from the panel menu. If fonts are missing, text
may recompose during repagination, causing line breaks to change.
Repaginate only after consulting with the customer, because it may
alter the content (such as page numbering) of documents in the book.
To repaginate a book, choose Repaginate from the Book panel menu.
A book’s formatting is controlled by a style source document that
controls all other documents in the book. Any document in a book can
be a style source document which is indicated by a small icon ( ) to the
left of its name in the Book panel. Any InDesign document can belong
to multiple book files. For this reason, when customers use a book file,
they should identify the style source document; before you synchronize
the book, confirm that the correct document is earmarked as the source
document in the Book panel. Because a book can contain complex
links, cross references, and other dependencies, it is best to have
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