Single Table of Contents spanning multiple books

[dflick]

I am assembling a book.(actually a number of books) from some old paper documents. I have scanned to pdf and copy, pasted and edited into new InDesign CS documents. Each document is a 2 page spread. The problem is that I have hundreds of these files that need to be indexed and a table of contents formatted for. InDesign will only allow 100 documents per book.

Does anyone know a work around to this? Is it possible to add more than 100 documents to a book file? Or perhaps just make a TOC for more than one book at a time.

I know I must be missing something, surely folks make books with more documents???

 

[viol8ion]

Is it feasible to make 4, or 8 page spreads, scanning multiple paper docs into one document? I doubt there is any easy way of changing ID's built-in limits.

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[dflick]

Yes, I could make multi-page spreads, but for this particular project, each spread will later be converted to pdf, so I would like to keep each spread in its own document. I am thinking perhaps I can create a Table of Contents and an index that spans multiple books... I'll post here if I have any success.

 

[Procab]

Why do you have to assemble them in InDesign, you can do that in Acrobat, then make table of contents, bookmarks and links there

 

[dflick]

That sounds like a good idea. Can I process all of the files in a batch? I have 900+ pages to process and need a way to organize them in a quick way.

In the mean time, I have copied and pasted the contents of each file into a longer document and then combined the resulting documents in a new book.

This takes care of the first hundred or so. I would love to find a simpler quicker solution.