Publisher 2 | Books & Packages

[Luca H]

Hi everyone,  
I have a few questions regarding books and packaged files.

I would like to know the following:

Is it possible to package complete books? If yes, how?

Or do you have to package each chapter-file separately?
Since packaged files can't be added to the book, after opening them, you have to save them again to add them to the book.

So what is the best way to archive and manage books and all associated files, fonts and resources?

How are books and packaged files supposed to be used together in a meaningful way?

What are your workflows?

[MikeTO]

On 11/23/2022 at 12:12 PM, Luca H said:

Hi everyone,  
I have a few questions regarding books and packaged files.

I would like to know the following:

Is it possible to package complete books? If yes, how?

Or do you have to package each chapter-file separately?
Since packaged files can't be added to the book, after opening them, you have to save them again to add them to the book.

So what is the best way to archive and manage books and all associated files, fonts and resources?

How are books and packaged files supposed to be used together in a meaningful way?

What are your workflows?

Hi Luca, Publisher v2 can't package an entire Book, just a single document. I imagine this is on the wishlist for a future version.

Although I've tried out the Books feature I'm not using it myself at this time. If I were using it I would skip the package step and simply zip up my resources, fonts, and document files manually. Packaging is convenient but not necessary. Of course it's easier if you organized all of the images for the book in a single folder in the first place.

One thing you could consider - you likely used all the fonts in each chapter. Perhaps try packaging a single chapter document to generate the package folder. Then add all the remaining chapter files, book file, and images into that package folder. That would at least pull together the fonts for you.

Good luck!