Combining multiple .indd documents

[PaladinBlake]

I'm the Design Editor of a highschool newspaper that's trying to get a website started. We want to put archived issues of our paper on the site, but, seeing as each page is created by a different person on a different computer, we end up with twenty-to-thirty-some .indd (eventually converted into .pdf) documents. Is there any convenient way to compile them all into one multi-page document after they've all been made, or am I stuck with cut-and-paste? Any help would be appreciated.

We're using Windows InDesign CS2.

 

[eugenetyson]

File>New>Book

Insert each file into the book.

Right Click on the Fly arrow on the Book Panel.

Create PDF.

Or Create each Pdf individually by selecting one at a time.

Or. Alt Click on the Print Button on the Book Panel to automatically bring up the Export to PDF option.

If you create a PDF with all the documents in it.

You can create individual PDFs by using Adobe, Document>Extract pages

Select the range of pages etc.

Shouldn't take long.

 

[PaladinBlake]

Thank you kindly. That's very helpful.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Or you could do a Thumbnail drag to combine them into one indd file

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[eugenetyson]

Yes you could do that, but remember to drag the Master Pages in first.

I tried to do this with heavy graphic intensive files and the program kept crashing...