File Structure_Naming Convention

Question

What's the best practice for preparing the file structure?
I've made all the files with the suffix - "_h"
Do I need to have all the files as "_v" and in the opposite orientation?
What about Links? Can I just have them as a standard folder?
Is there anything out there that will package the files with the necessary suffix and include a link in those folders?
Is it a manual process to rename and structure the DP folder?

Answer 1

First off, with CS5.5 you are going to run into issues because DPS was
still pretty much cobbled on top of it.
It's still not a completely integrated solution but with CS6 and CC the
DPS tools are one update and you can package everything.
It's actually a good thing that you have separate INDD files now because
you're going to need them that way for DPS.
But you're going to have to rework the whole thing. What I would do is
create a parent folder for the DPS job.
Then open each INDD file and package it to a new folder inside that
parent folder. That will give you all of you files, document fonts, and
links in the right place.
Now get to work...open the dps folder in Windows Explorer and change the
file names to add the _v or _h suffix to the INDD files and then open
them and change the page sizes to 1024x768 or 768x1024.
You're now ready to go.