Duplicating Pages Multiple Times

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January 15, 2019
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Working in InDesign. I need to take a 2 page spread and duplicate it 365 times, but I can only duplicate one copy at a time. Is there a way to duplicate at all once?

Correct answer winterm

Ah right - sorry.

I'm pretty sure they would have figured it out all on their own though.

And after all, all of you may be looking to the completely wrong direction

What if OP doesn't need to duplicate content, but the special spread itself? Say, with true inner bleed for spiral binding? This can be done with a Page tool, but there's no use to do it on a master spread. You must prepare one document spread, and then duplicate it. Manually, in Pages panel, dragging pages icons with Alt key pressed.

Duplicate 1 spread ->2

2->4

4->8

8->16

16->32

32->64

64->128

128->256

256->512 and so on.

It's faster to do than it seems.

OP should elaborate.

H

henleylover1Author

New Participant

Updating this question. I have two pages with content on them, I want that duplicated 364 times. I have no idea how to do it except for one at a time. Is there a way to click a few things to get it to duplicate the content on these two pages 364 times. I have no idea about scripts.

rob day

Community Expert

If you can't do it via a Master, spreads can be duplicated via scripting.

This simple AppleScript (OSX only) will duplicate the active spread 365 times, placing the duplicates after the active spread:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

repeat 365 times

duplicate (active spread of active window) to after (active spread of active window)

end repeat

end tell

Erik Lingerfelt

Known Participant

Now THIS is what I was looking for.
Duplicating artwork with master pages doesn't give me one thing: I need to fill out some text fields in the duplicated art - like making several email signatures for a large company.
I even dusted off my programming skills and edited this, making a script where I can input the number I want of pages to add.
Later I might just add more funtion to it, cheking the input, error control etc.

Thanks for this!!

Jeff Witchel, ACI

Community Expert

If I understanding your question correctly, you may want to copy and paste you layout to a Master Page spread and then add the number of page you need under the options menu of the Pages panel > Insert Pages.