u/akolstedt

I need .idd setup help please!

Deep in the "I don't know the right words to look up what I need to know" trenches.

I'm making a book with a friend. She's doing the art and the layout and the design work and has made a beautiful Indesign document. I'll be exporting pages in a custom signature configuration to print. This is a process I do regularly, I have my print settings where I need them, but the process is tedious to do custom so I'm not going to make her do this end of things.

The problem is that every time she sends me the .idd file and attribute folders there's something missing or something that doesn't sync right (a font, a background image, something shifts, there's always *something*).

Is there a way for her to send me an .idd file with all the pages flattened or rasterized or something so that the contents of the document are fixed but I have control of how the document is exported for print?

Thanks in advance!

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u/akolstedt — 3 days ago