Introducing: Open Multi-Page PDF win/mac

[CarlosCanto]

Hi all, many users have expressed their desire for a way to open multipage PDFs in Illustrator and for a couple of years now, mac users have enjoyed the use of a script by Shane Stanley to do just that...at first I wanted to translate his script into VB so PC users could benefit from it...since I couldn't get the source code, I decided to give my own version a try using JS....here's the result.

Use with caution, save everything before running until you're comfortable it won't mess things up. I didn't try opening a crazy amount of pages, I "only" opened 35 in about minute and a half. Let us know how many pages you're able to open before you crash Illustrator...

it works with CS4 and CS5 only, windows and mac

have comments?, questions? let me know...enjoy. Carlos Canto

Download:

http://www.fileswap.com/dl/QDc2eDC9v4/AI_openMultiPagePDF_CS4_CS5.zip.html

[Dana_MAM]

Thank You so much i tried it again and now it's working ^_^

[MVH1959]

Get that donation link up! I've saved more time than I can count with this script.

(Don't tell anybody but I use CorelDraw's Print Merge feature, export the merged file as a multiple-up-per-page pdf file, then with your script, bring it all back to Illustrator. Saves me a TON of work.)

[CarlosCanto]

nice to hear that,  you can paypal me at this email account (xtaurio at yahoo dot com)

thanks

[GabrielPorras]

Thankss Carlossss,

It works perfect in Illustrator CC.

[heathrowe]

Fantastic, thanks a lot Carlos.

Darrell

[The Machine-o]

This sounds great and, from so many positive comments, it seems you've done some great work, Carlos!

Excuse my noobness, however, but I downloaded the linked file and can't run it. I unzipped it and found a .jsx file of which I'm not familiar. I'm on a Mac...am I just missing something?

Thanks for all your work!

Peace,

Paul

[The Machine-o]

I retract that. I figured it out.

PERF!

Thanks a billz, Carlos!

[CarlosCanto]

You're welcome

[The Noob]

I've been using your script and it was working GREAT with Illustrator CC and CC (2014).

Today I upgraded to the latest version of Illustrator (2014.1.0) and now the script doesn't work all the time.  The script now creates a blank document and a second document with the file name and stops on the first page.  I checked and the "Page Range" was set to "From: 1 To: 2".  Have you done any testing on the latest version of Illustrator CC (2014) 1.0?

Thank you so much for sharing your time and expertise.

[CarlosCanto]

Hi Noob, sorry I have not tested it with CC

[mercuriom@xavier.edu]

Carlos, first I want to say thank you so much for this. I can't tell you how many HOURS this saves me a week. HOURS. This should be a standard Adobe product in my opinion.

I do have a quick question. When pasting on ALL ARTBOARDS, is there a trick to pasting all IN FRONT or pasting all BEHIND? Sometimes it works for me, other times it does not.

Regardless of this small little item, I appreciate the work you put into this.

[mercuriom@xavier.edu]

Also, one more small question... if you have a PDF in landscape orientation, is there a way to open it in Adobe in landscape as well? Or does this only allow you to open them in portrait view with everything rotated?

[Noemo]

Hi Carlos,

just found your script - unfortuantely the download link wont work anymore. Would you be able to check on your side and post a new link?

Thanks!!

Mirko

[Noemo]

found it: Ai Open Multi-Page PDF

[gregoryn19397861]

Hi Carlos,

This script is no longer available when I click the link you provided 3 years ago. Any chance this still exists/ have another updated script for this purpose?

Greg

[CarlosCanto]

here you go

Ai Open Multi-Page PDF

[gregoryn19397861]

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for your reply, I managed to troll through some of your other posts elsewhere and I found this exact script yesterday.

It works absolutely perfectly, thank you!

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[michaelchiew]

Many thanks! It work very well on most of my PDF files.

However, if the artwork has 2 layers above and at the same time one of it is hidden or locked. It won't load properly when I put in the files.

I even tried to add in...
pdfLayer.locked = false

pdfLayer.hidden = false

pdfLayer.visible = true

It still won't load properly or it gives me a blank page.

[deepali_jhaveri]

Hi Carlos,

I'm unable to use that link. Please share it again.

I need it urgently.

Thanks in advance.

[CarlosCanto]

here you go

Open multipage PDF | Ai Scripts

[deepali_jhaveri]

Thank you so much Carlos.

[Alexander Karachevskiy]

Hi Carlos.

I use Illustrator CC19.2. When i set the pages and click "Open", the script creates only new blank document.

And when i set any1 page, its opened with some damages. Could you help?

[CarlosCanto]

hi, does that happen with all different pdf files? try other files to see if it works, if it doesn't please provide a troubled file to see if I can spot the issue.

[o-marat]

CarlosCanto, hello!

What do you think that if I set the zero point of the global rulers to the top left corner of the working area?

In this case, the artboards will be added starting from the top left corner, filling all the available space in the working area.

If you think it's appropriate, then where do I put the modified script (changes are very little)?

[CarlosCanto]

Hi o-marat​, that's a good idea, post your modified script here in this post.