Saving an InDesign document on multiple discs
Does anyone know how to save a large document on multiple discs. I thought it would be something simple but apparently its not (at least I can't figure it out). The document is too big for a CD, I don't have a DVD burner and my USB port are on the fritz so I can use a flash drive. Any suggestions?
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Even zipped you can't cram
Even zipped you can't cram it on a CD? Any way to separate the InDesign file(s)? Is it on a laptop that you can take to a buddy's who has a DVD burner that you can connect to your drive?
ciao
3dogmama
Label one CD as "Project CD1"
And the other one as CD 2 and keep 'em together when you send them.
InDesign generates a report when you 'Package' the file, you can print it out with instructions saying what's on one disk and another AND you can print out windows of the two disks so that you can show who you're sending it to what is what and what goes where.
"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda
I can't say I have ever seen
I can't say I have ever seen an InDesign document anywhere near a size that wouldn't fit on a cd.
I have to assume you have your images embedded. You should just link to them, then you can divide the files however you want.
Wait. . .
. . . you're INDESIGN document can't fit on a CD!? I thought u meant the files in the FOLDER not the indesign file itself!
OY!
You need to check that file dude. . . its WAY too big.. . maybe you DO have files embedded. . . not good.
"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda
Zip it (compress all files
Zip it (compress all files to one .zip archive) and upload to a free web storage service like www.sendspace.com. Handles up to 300MB for 9 days at a time.
If you had to burn it to separate 700MB discs, collect the doc and keep all the layout files on one disk (smaller) and split up all the image files into 1 of x, 2 of x, and so on. Break them into 600-625MB groups.
You've got a huge project going from the sounds of it.
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or if you really need to put
or if you really need to put it on multiple disks, most compression formats, including ZIP and RAR, have a "multiple file" capability. so you could tell it to make as many files as it needs to at 640mb (or less) so they would fit on multiple CDs.
or if you're considering uploading, you can ask your printer if they have an FTP site that you can upload to. that's probably easier for them than something like sendspace.com, since it will already be on their server. i rarely ever send disks to a vendor any more. most of them have FTP sites that I can upload the files to and i find that much easier.
that's probably easier for
Sometimes I wonder if you ever have ideas of your own or if you just like slamming mine? You and JimD need to go to 'know it all school'.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
Tough evening with the
Tough evening with the babe?
ciao
3dogmama
Nope.
Nope. I guess gwells and I tend to spar with each other. He's protecting everyone from my ideas for some reason rather than just stating his own opinion. It's getting old.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
take a chill pill. i'm not
take a chill pill. i'm not protecting anyone from your ideas, i was making another suggestion.
and i wasn't trying to put you down, just stating that it's easier to directly upload to a vendor than to use a third party.
Gwells, I apologize for my
Gwells, I apologize for my vitriol, but my feeling is still the same. It'd be nice if you'd ease up on critiquing my posts and instead focus on your own opinion. It seems that more often than not you take issue with my opinions and it's getting a little old.
In response to your point, I don't know many print vendors who want to store a bunch of files that are larger than 100 or 200MB on their own servers. Many are open to the idea that they don't have to do that so I disagree with you there.
Anyway, didn't mean to hijiack this thread with my frustration.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
sorry you feel that way.
sorry you feel that way. i'll try to make sure i'm more careful about how i phrase what i say.
what i said here wasn't intended as a personal criticism, i was just pointing out that i thought it would be easier to directly upload it to the vendor instead of using a third party, where you have to upload to the third party, then the vendor has to download from the third party. it had nothing to do with it being your opinion, i would have made the same comment no matter who had pointed out filesharing services (which i think are great, btw, and particularly useful for sharing large files with clients if you don't have an FTP server of your own to do that).
as far as uploading large files to print vendors, i've never had a problem with it and i've uploaded files/projects far larger than 100-200MB to vendor FTP sites many times. if you upload it to a file sharing service, they still have to download the files and put them on their servers to print them. if you send them a disk with files, they will still copy them off of the disk and onto their servers in order to process them, so i'm not really sure how FTPing the files directly to them saves them server space. even if you just mean storage on their FTP server, they can always move the files off the FTP server and onto their file server as soon as they're uploaded. any storage is only for the duration of the project, anyway.
I didn't take it personally
I didn't take it personally since you don't know me, nor I you, but it does get very annoying when you take issue with almost everything I post. I have examples to prove this on CB but I'm not going to get into it.
Anyway, we can probably stop this discussion at this point.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
you mean uploading to a
you mean uploading to a vendor was your idea? i missed that. it wasn't intended as a personal attack, sorry if it came across that way.
Geez.
Wow Nato, that was harsh. I've always enjoyed reading your posts, and while I've disagreed with some of your advice given, by-and-large I've always thought you to be spot-on. So I'm not sure where those comments are coming from.
Whatever the case, just because somebody disagrees with you, or offers different advice, doesn't mean someone is slamming you, or slighting your opinion.
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Jim, yes I was a little
Jim, yes I was a little cranky yesterday, but it seems gwells always has something to say against my comments in particular and I'm getting a little tired of it. I don't mind someone disagreeing with me, but if it's ALL THE TIME I have a problem with that. Especially when most of the time I'm only stating opinion that's neither correct or incorrect.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
Several options
You can use a file sharing service - great list of some of the better ones here.
You can use BetterZip (Free) to compress and split the files.
You can use PteroSplit (Free) to split the file and recombine later.
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I've never noticed the guy
I've never noticed the guy before, maybe he has a schoolyard "crush" on you. You know, the e-hair-pulling thing. ;-)
I think the point has been
I think the point has been lost here just a bit.
Bottom line is that if you simply link your files, your InDesign file will not get bloated to the point at which you cannot fit it onto a cd. May be too late for this job, but something to keep in mind for the future.
As far as getting the files to another computer, there are several good options for doing this as noted above.