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063 Placing one InDesign file inside another

063 Placing one InDesign file inside another - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

063 Placing one InDesign file inside another

You already know that you can place PDFs into your InDesign document, or TIFFs, or JPEGs, or many other kinds of file formats, but I want to talk about importing a different kind of file; InDesign files themselves. That's right! You can import one InDesign file into another InDesign file, and it turns out that that can be extremely useful. For example, I am working on my catalog right now and somebody else has been working on the application form, the form that I am going to be using in my catalog. Well, I could ask them to export a PDF and then import that PDF in the InDesign, or even easier, I will just go to the File menu, choose Place, and then choose the application.indd file itself. That's the actual InDesign file that they were working on. When I click Open, I get the Place cursor, and now I can click in the upper-left corner and it places the page in exactly the right place. Now it's nice to save that intermediary step of having to make a PDF file but even better this is…

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