Can you combine pdf files in indesign

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>> Please note : I don't want to use book and adobe acrobat.

Topic starter want the spherical horse in a vacuum.

Don't want merging. Want some as you can do in the MS Explorer with .doc files - select files - right click - print.

I think that is a task for some script writer.

/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881422#M41845 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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you can place indd into indd.

Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881424#M41847 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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I don't want to combine both .indd files into a .indd document. I wanted to generate a merged pdf of both .indd files.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881425#M41848 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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Then you will need to Save/Print both InDesign documents as PDFs and then use some type of PDF creator/editor program to combine those 2 PDF documents into one PDF.

No other way around it. Of course you could take the suggestion from above to combine the 2 ID documents into one ID document then Save/Print that document as a PDF.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881426#M41849 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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Further to this point just use Adobe Acrobat DC and combine/arrange PDF's directly from here. Otherwise just drag and drop Indesign Pages from one save file to another.

Otherwise just drag and drop Indesign Pages from one save file to another since you only want to use Indesign.

Additional PDF pages could always be placed or exported into the INDD file.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881423#M41846 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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Why don't you want to use the Book panel? It would be the best workaround.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881427#M41850 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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Create an INDB InDesign Book File, and add all INDD into that. Export your PDF from the INDB Book Panel Menu.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881428#M41851 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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See in the first post -

>> Please note : I don't want to use book and adobe acrobat.

Topic starter want the spherical horse in a vacuum.

Don't want merging. Want some as you can do in the MS Explorer with .doc files - select files - right click - print.

I think that is a task for some script writer.

Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881431#M41854 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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I am not sure why you want to avoid the solutions offered.

Unless you import your InDesign files into a single InDesign; InDesign does not really have a function to collate and compile several files into one other than the Book feature.

Maybe if you explained why you want to avoid the InDesign book feature we could help you better.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881433#M41856 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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I'll try some script

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881434#M41857 Jul 03, 2018 Jul 03, 2018

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Hi - did you find a script that will merge multiple InDesign file into one InDesign file? My printer needs my files in this way. Doesn't want "book" file. Thanks!

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881435#M41858 Jul 03, 2018 Jul 03, 2018

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Why don’t you send a PDF?

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881429#M41852 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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Why do you not want the book functionality? IT IS PART OF INDESIGN! You don't need a different program. That is the easiest way.
It seems to me, that you don't know what the INDB functionality means in InDesign. Please learn it to use. That is the simplest solution.

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/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-combine-multiple-adobe-indesign-documents/m-p/8881430#M41853 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017

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You can use the book feature and make a PDF of the two documents. (non-destructive)

You can use Acrobat or another PDF editor to merge the PDFs (non-destructive)

You can combine the documents in InDesign using the Pages panel menu and moving pages (this could possibly cause problems)