Tutorial
Export InDesign Books with MadeToPrint
This tutorial shows that you can process InDesign Books (*.indb) with MadeToPrint automatically (hot folder based) to PDF or PostScript.
Configure the filename
Choose the token «BOOKDOCNAME()» instead of «DOCUMENTNAME()» to get the name of the book. «DOCUMENTNAME()» would name the PDF according to the first Layout of the book (e.g. "Section 1.pdf").
Enable MadeToPrint preflight
To ensure the high quality update the MadeToPrint preflight. It will check if all images and fonts in the documents are available an try to load missing images from the provided package.
Create the Hotfolder Job
Go to the Autojob-Configuration
Give a speaking name
Set up Action
To recognize books MadeToPrint needs to trigger documents "Process Documents" (1) and must run in "Process complete folders" mode (2).
Choose the hotfolder
Tell MadeToPrint where to look for books. Therefore simply browse to your hot folders by selecting "Choose..."
Tip: If you choose "Turbo..." you only need to browse to the "main" folder, MadeToPrint will then automatically create the subfolders "In", "Out" and "Error" and fill out the fields accordingly
Save the job
Click Apply (1) to save the jobs and Close (2) to quit the configuration mode
Start monitoring
Click Start to start the hotfolder monitoring
Drag Book folder to hotfolder
This is a sample of how a book folder may look like. This is just a sample - the only important thing is that there is a book file in the topmost level.
Drag the whole folder to the configured IN folder
As soon as the copying is finished MadeToPrint Auto will recognize the book and start exporting it to PDF
If the status bar turns green the book has been processed successfully.
You will find your final PDF in the Result folder as defined in the MadeToPrint printjob (see above)