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December 28, 2021
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Can I embed a photo gallery in InDesign document?

  • December 28, 2021
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Hi. I am publishing a newsletter online using Indesign. Can I embed a photo gallery? If so, how please? Thanks.

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Diane Burns
Inspiring
December 28, 2021

Publish Online is a great option, samples here: http://bit.ly/PubOnCollection

To create a grid of photos in InDesign for a photo gallerys, there are several ways to do it. But one of my favorites is as follows:

1. With the Rectangle Frame tool, draw a rectangle that fills the page, and while doing so, press the Right and Up arrows on your keyboard. This will allow you to create a grid of as many rows and columns of frames as you wish.

2. Select all the Frames and use Object menu > Fitting > Frame Fitting options to set all to "Fill Frame".

3. Select multiple image files and just drop them in the frames. You may need to reposition or resize some to get the desired crop.

Trev_MAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 29, 2021

Hi Diane. Thanks for responding. Yes, sorry I should've said - I'm looking to embed an interactive gallery, where the user can either click on an arrow to flick to the next pic, or hit play and the gallery plays itself. Hope this helps. (And yes I know it won't work on a downloadable PDF. I'm just looking at my published online newsletter). Thanks.

Lukas Engqvist
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 29, 2021

I did this some years back. Both methods also work for publish online.

https://youtu.be/H6iW8wsjNaE

manal shanableh
Legend
December 28, 2021

what is the type of this magazine? is it publish online or Epub?? or Interactive PDF?

Trev_MAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 29, 2021

Published online, Manal.

Lukas Engqvist
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 28, 2021

There are many ways to do a "photo gallery" so not sure what you are after. Are you envisioning something static or interactive. In a Publish online you can embedd HTML code, there is also posibility to have interactive objects, but bear in mind that what works interactively may not be accessible or work in a downloadable PDF or printed form.

Trev_MAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 29, 2021

Hi Lukas. Thanks for responding. Yes, sorry I should've said - I'm looking to embed an interactive gallery, where the user can either click on an arrow to flick to the next pic, or hit play and the gallery plays itself. Hope this helps. (And yes I know it won't work on a downloadable PDF. I'm just looking at my published online newsletter). Thanks.

Derek Cross
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 28, 2021

Have a look at InDesign's Publish Online feature - the reader has to be online to look at it, but you can enable it so they can download a (static) PDF version.

LinkedInLearning.com have a useful video tutorial by Diane Burns on producing such documents (and you can get 30-days free access).