Duplicating Pages Multiple Times

[henleylover1]

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?

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

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.

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

I'm with Jeff on this

Create  a Master Spread - then insert your copy there - then insert 365 pages using that master spread.

[Colin Flashman]

Not quite - 730 pages would need to be added - THEN you would have 365 2-page spreads

(my page count starts on page 2 to force a left hand first page)

[Eugene Tyson]

Well I specifically said to insert 365 pages using the master spread, which is accurate.

Technically I should have said 364 pages though

[Colin Flashman]

Have a re-read of the OP's original question:

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?

2 page spread, duplicate it 365 times. That's 730.

[Eugene Tyson]

Ah right - sorry.

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

[winterm · Accepted solution]

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.

[Stephanie34356826usub]

This was a great solution!! Thanks.

[henleylover1]

Yes I can do this. But I want the content to duplicate not blank pages.

[winterm]

Multiple duplicates of the same object on the same page? If so, we all here discussed absolutely different things till now.

If I understood you correctly, you just want to use Edit > Step and Repeat command.

Also there is a technique called gridify. Basically you can get more or less the same with it, but I'd recommend to start with Step and Repeat…

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

Huh? The Pages will not be blank.

Anything that is on the Master will be on every single page that Master is applied to. 365 spreads of your exact content duplicated perfectly in less than a minute.

Am I totally misunderstanding your question?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi there

I would like to know if the steps suggested above worked for you, or the issue still persists.

Kindly update the discussion if you need further assistance with it.

Thanks,

Srishti

[trey@fbcdothan.org]

winterm: THANK YOU! I needed to duplicate 114 pages with the text boxes, but not the content. The content would be different for each page (therefore the Master feature wouldn't work for me). Insert pages just added pages, but no text boxes. Like you said, this was faster than you'd think! Just what I needed!

[TJeffries12]

Thank you for the suggestion/fix. It worked wonderfully for me.

[rob day]

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]

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!!

[henleylover1]

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.