Adobe InDesign, Versions 15.0.0 and 15.0.1
Steps:
- Open a book or an indb file, respectively, or create a book (File - New book)
-> the book is shown in the book panel without content
- Press button + ("Add documents") at the tool bar at the bottom
-> the file file selection dialog is opened with label "Add documents"
- Select an existing indd file and press button "Open"
Expected result:
-> The indd file is added to the book
Actual result:
-> The indd file is not added to the book; the file selection dialog is opened again, but selecting the file again leads not to the expected result

(Note: I am forced to rollback to version 14.0.3 because of this issue)

It would be extremely time and frustration saving if I/users could lock/pause/disable the resynching process. The lock could be manually released once I have re-ordered the chapters in a book as I like them, Then I can allow updates and resynchs to happen en masse rather than whenever I make the tiniest change to the order of the chapters.

You see: I write textbooks with exercises at the end of each chapter. Often these exercises are taken from previous books I have written. I then customise them for the current book according to the client's requests.

Once I have imported easily 10 to 20 exercise files, I then need to reorder them, so they appear at the end of each chapter. Adding them one by one is a harrowing process indeed, so I add them as a block of files. Every time I reorder one, I then have to wait for a large book to resynch. I then repeat this process some 10-20 times. It would be much easier if I could defer the individual resynchs until all the "chapter shifting" is completed.

Kind regards
MIke Howell

I have a "large" technical textbook, in my case 20 chapters and at least 22 indd files, if I wnt to add a page or two to an existing chapter, each time I click the new page icon, it takes a while for InDesign to reassess page and section numbers. Ten clicks of "new page later", it rather timeconsuming.

How about an option, similar to adding rows/columns to a table, that allows you to specifiy how many pages you would like to add?

At the moment, adding 10 pages means watching it update section numbers 10 times.

Kind regards
Mike Howell

Indesign version 14.0.3 x64

Issue reproduction: Create a page number cross references that links to a text anchor on a different InDesign document. Close all documents except for the one on which the cross reference is, and then duplicate the layer.

Expected result: the cross refereferences should be preserved.

Actual result: The cross references will break and display <?> on the new layer.

Work-around: open ALL documents that are referenced first (in my case up to 100), then duplicate the layer. Cross references will be preserved.

Sample docs attached... oops "Invalid file type: .indd not allowed"
I guess I'll attach screenshots:

I'm using a book file to organize a number of interactive forms.

When I export out the forms as interactive PDFs, the alt text that was designated in the "button and forms" panel for that form field sometimes gets switched out for alt text that is used in another form if the fields share the same name. This happens on export whether I use the"Export book to PDF" option in the book panel or I use the "File" option export (ctrl+E keyboard shortcut).

The alt text remains correct in the InDesign file and only gets switched out upon export.

For interactive text fields, I use the "description" field in the "Buttons and Forms" panel rather than using "object export options" alt text panel (I leave that as the default: "from structure".

This workflow had worked in the past: I had used a book file with the forms in a previous iteration about 1 year ago with no issues.

I'm using Adobe CC 2018 on Windows 10 Enterprise 2016.

RE: Index / Table of Contents

When creating an Index, you are limited to populate ONLY one Index style format. MS Word, it is greatly inferior program, and yet you can create a General Index, a Index of Cases and Index of Figures. Indesign is the leading industry program for designers and writers, NOT MS word.

What happens if have lots of illustrations, data tables graphs and flowcharts all numbered accordingly. For example, an illustration (Figure 20 or Table 7), maybe on page 40, but there are 40 mentions throughout the document. Thus, in Indesign, you can not create a proper index list every page number of Figure 20, or a table etc. If you to want create more Indexes like the Index format, you CANNOT, you are forced to use the Table of Contents style.

We are in a climate where there is a strong demand for indexes that best help our customers to locate information in the books and magazines we produce.

We need to improve the Index function with the ability to create multiple Indexes, that follow the actual Index format (not the Table of Contents Format). If you use Peter Kahrel’s script or IndexMatic they are very limited what you can do. IndexMatic creates a concordance and Peter's Script uses the Topic area of the Index panel, mixing in or amalgamating all the indexes. It ends up being messy.

W should be able to create SEPARATE indexes using the Index feature: (1) INDEX OF FIGURES (2) INDEX OF STATUTES, (3) INDEX OF TABLES (4) INDEX OF FLOWCHARTS and (5) INDEX OF GRAPHS. All populate every page number of every mentioned item (tables, figure, statute, flowchart etc).

Let's do this — update the program

David