Creating a package

While saving your InDesign file is useful, it’s worth bearing in mind that doing so only saves the InDesign file and not any linked files, such as images or fonts, that have been used in the document. If somebody opens the file on a different machine, these related files will show as broken links or potentially missing fonts. Also, you may find, even when opening up the file on the same machine sometime later, that there may be missing fonts or broken links as, over time, you may have removed assets that were present when the document was created – for example, by having a clean out of your image assets and deleting some.

In this recipe, we will look at creating a package that allows you to collect together the document, as well as copies of all of its assets such as fonts and images into a single directory, which can then be used either for backup purposes or to hand everything off to a third party.

Getting ready

In order to complete this...