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Exporting and importing page snippets

Exporting and importing page snippets - InDesign Tutorial

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Exporting and importing page snippets

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While Copy and Paste in libraries are a great way to reuse elements from your documents, I want to show you another feature in InDesign that I like even more. It's called Snippets. Snippets are a way to save elements from your InDesign pages as files on disk, not whole documents, just the elements of the pages. For example, I'm going to select this graphic frame and this text frame, and why don't we go ahead and grab that graphic frame as well? And I'm going to save all three of those objects as a file on disk. To do that, I go to the File menu, choose Export, and then choose InDesign Snippet from the Format pop-up menu. Now you can call it anything you want. By default, it gives it the name of the InDesign file itself, but I'm going to call this, three elements of logo. And you see that it gives it the .idms filename extension. When I save it, it saves those objects inside my Snippet file on disk. And that means, next time I need those three objects, all I have to do is place them…

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