Combine Multiple InDesign Files Into One Layout

Combine multiple InDesign files into one layout, as demonstrated in this video tutorial. Layout Tabs within one document is not 100% possible, in InDesign. Of course, you can have tabs of individual InDesign files open. But, as in QuarkXPress, where you have one .QXP file with multiple tabbed Layouts within that file, that is not really possible in InDesign. BUT, there is a work-around ...
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In this video, Markzware shows you how to merge or combine multiple InDesign files, into one .INDD file or DTP layout! This is handy for Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) users, for they may be used to tabbed layouts in QuarkXPress, and miss that, while in Adobe InDesign CC or CS6.
Note: Markzware's stand-alone QXPMarkz app replaces the Q2ID InDesign plug-in and allows users to convert QuarkXPress to InDesign, Affinity Publisher, older QuarkXPress versions, and more: markzware.com/...
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Combine Multiple InDesign Files Into One Layout!
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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, 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 layout tabs. 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 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
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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, for Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!
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Combine Multiple InDesign Files Into One Layout

[@Markzware]

Combine multiple InDesign files into one layout, as shown in this video. The stand-alone QXPMarkz app replaces the Q2ID InDesign plug-in and allows users to convert QuarkXPress to InDesign, Affinity Publisher, older QuarkXPress versions, and more: markzware.com/products/qxpmarkz/ See another video on KZbin about converting files to InDesign: Preview and Convert QuarkXPress to InDesign and more kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIOaf3eCgMd0iqs

[@phantomga]

A video about InDesign starting with Quark, nice.

[@kcomobile]

I appreciate the tip but for goodness sake, please tell viewers that they can start your video at 2:30 to see how to do it.

[@josepharce8380]

They are still separate files. You just viewed them in tabs.

[@Markzware]

Yes, as you saw in the video, they are separate InDesign files. Now in a Book file within InDesign. That is the difference. A Book file combines all of those files together, in a way. Not as good as in QuarkXPress, but it is a start. You would need to Package an InDesign Book, with FlightCheck www.markzware.com/products/flightcheck for instance, with all used documents and of course their individual fonts and images.

[@dkaguta]

Thanks mate...