Placing LOTS of pics in yearbook

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May 2, 2022
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Please help! I dont want to place each of the 125 pics I have for a yearbook individually.

What is the fastest way to make my grid (say about 20 pics per page) and have images auto flow into the layout?

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wcerveraAuthor

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Thank you all so much for your answers, it was actually quite easy to accomplish 🙂 Thanks!

Now I have to figure out how to autoflow all of the names under the pics, but I guess that is a different thread!

BobLevine

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You could have added the names to the metadata and automatically generated captions that way.

Scott Falkner

Community Expert

If you have a Parent Page with empty frames for your images you can add enough of them as pages to your document. Say your layout is five rows of four images, making 20 ups ages to a page. Add eight pages, giving you 160 empty frames.
Now go to File > Place and select your 150 images. The cursor will load all 150 images, click on an empty frame to place an image. Click, click,click times 150 and they are placed. They will be loaded and placed based on the filename, so name them the order in which they will place. e.g. Abrams_Aaron.tif down to Zygax_Zachariah.tif.

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Frank1241

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I'm in the same situation. Now is there a way to auto place the loaded images on the cursor into the empty frames?

Barb Binder

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Yes, see your post here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/automatically-placing-images-18-from-a-file-into-frames-18/td-p/13347946

~Barb

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Select all images for a page, draw a rectangle while holding the filled curser and with the arrow keys click to increase/decrease rows and columns. InDesign chooses the gap you have choosen for that page for text (even if you have no columns, a gap setting exists).