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TGMike
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December 30, 2016
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Duplicating a large number of pages script (special)

  • December 30, 2016
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A fairly common problem for us is having a large file, say ~100 pages, where we have to duplicate each page X number times, so that each duped page is added after the original.

For example: I have to duplicate each page of a 100 page file 5x so that in the end I have a file with pages in this order: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3...

Normally when you duplicate 100 pages, it puts the pages at the end of the file. And while I know you can OPT-Drag pages to duplicate them where you want (in fact, I have a script with a shortcut to do this), many of our jobs are very large and it's not feasible to dupe 100 pages 5x each... 1 at a time. It's both too time consuming and introduces a large chance you'll make a mistake along the way.

Is there a script out there where you can quickly duplicate a large file in the order above? Or perhaps some trick to achieve the same result?

Thanks!

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Correct answer Ronald63

Hi,

You can try this snippet ...

var doc = app.documents[0];
var nbPage = doc.pages.length; // count doc pages
var n = 5; // duplicate number
for (i = 0; i < nbPage; i++) {
    var sourcePage = doc.pages.item(i + (i*n));
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
        sourcePage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, doc.pages.item(i + (i*n)));
    }
}

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Ronald63Correct answer
Legend
December 30, 2016

Hi,

You can try this snippet ...

var doc = app.documents[0];
var nbPage = doc.pages.length; // count doc pages
var n = 5; // duplicate number
for (i = 0; i < nbPage; i++) {
    var sourcePage = doc.pages.item(i + (i*n));
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
        sourcePage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, doc.pages.item(i + (i*n)));
    }
}
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TGMikeAuthor
Participating Frequently
December 30, 2016

That's great - thank you!

While that is completely usable as is, is there any way to add a little popup so you can enter the number of duplicates you wanted?

Thanks again!

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Ronald63
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December 31, 2016

Like this ?

var n = prompt('Enter a number between 1 and 99.', '', 'Name of dialog');
var reg = /^\d{2}$/; 
if (reg.test(n)){
    var doc = app.documents[0];  
    var nbPage = doc.pages.length; // count doc pages  
      
    for (i = 0; i < nbPage; i++) {  
        var sourcePage = doc.pages.item(i + (i*n));  
        for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {  
            sourcePage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, doc.pages.item(i + (i*n)));  
        }  
    }  
}else{
    alert('Error \r Must be a number between 1 to 99');
}
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