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Check out pandoc. With it you could convert your documents into Markdown. Then use common *nix text-utils to merge the parts you want into a single file and then load it to InDesign. Check out this article (http://rhythmus.be/md2indd/) that inspired me to automate protocol specs extraction from Word documents (bluurgh).

Hi danraftis, I'm interested in a generic solution solution to automate (instead of manually cut+paste) assembly of PDF files. Contact me at ycco@fgrazi.33mail.com if you are interested in working together as pilot user.

It’s not entirely clear what kind of PDFs you are building, but I’d like to hear more.

I’ve done this for 13 years (Mostly Quark instead of InDesign, but the same tools and tricks).

Let me know if you want to work together.

rusty

[you can email, feepish @ google’s free email]

InDesign itself is scriptable, but you may also want to look into automating it on the server using iText, which is available in Java and .NET flavours.