12/17/2023 0 Comments Indesign merge documents![]() ![]() ![]() I have to just put up with it for the time being, and make notes for myself to hopefully remember to make the modification between magazine issues. Sometimes while I'm working I'll notice something about a style that should be improved, but I don't dare edit the style while we are working in parallel. (Hmm, could that one font be different between OSes? It's our main article text font, so it's use is very pervasive.)Īnd even if that worked correctly, it's restricting. All our fonts are TypeKit except Adobe Garamond Pro. We use different OSes (he's on Mac, me on Win10), but that shouldn't matter. That has been working better, but it's not foolproof - still sometimes something changes slightly (most typically, some text will wrap a little differently, which can sometimes throw off the length of a column), even though both of us swear that we didn't edit any styles. So lately I have been just copying all the content of each spread (Method 1). I used to use the Pages-Drag-n-Drop method of merging (see Method 5 on this page), but the layout of his articles almost always changed somewhat during the merge, for reasons I never figured out. Then I work on my stuff directly in the master (because I do most of the design anyway), and later merge his stuff in. At the beginning of every issue's design cycle, I prepare the master document and then save a template from it for him to use for his articles. I'm responsible for the "master" document, merging in the articles he lays out. As far as I know, InDesign seems to only do "Use Destination Style", but I'm hoping there is a trick I don't know.Īnother designer and I work on a magazine. (Usually I hate Office, but in this instance they're onto something.) I'm not sure exactly what "Merge Formatting" does, but I think something similar to "Keep Source Formatting" is what I'm after. Even lowly MS Office offers that as an option when pasting - see this little labeled screenshot from a Microsoft tips page. ![]() Is there a way to copy/merge whole pages of content from one document to another and prevent any changes due to differing definitions of commonly named styles? In my imagined perfect world, I'd like any differences to become overrides on the pasted/merged content. ![]()
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