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June 20, 2024
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importing pages from an InDesign document into boxes on another InDesign document

  • June 20, 2024
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I need a script that will import each page from a multipage InDesign document into boxes I've created in a new document (with the option to include any bleed set in the multipage document or not). If I have 1000 pages in one document, I want to bring each page in to a new document to fill the 1000 boxes I've positioned. Then tell me if I've only created say 900 boxes on my new page, that the last 100 pages weren't imported.

Right now, I have to do this manually, and it's gruellnig!

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Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
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June 20, 2024

Why?

 

If you export your source INDD file as separate PDFs - you could use ImageCatalog script.

 

Or you can export as a single PDF - and use PlaceMultipagePDF script.

 

Both included with InDesign.

 

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B38120085xc66Author
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June 21, 2024

thanks for your reply - PlaceMultipagePDF doesn't do what I want at all - if i have a 300 page INDD doc I saved as a 300 page PDF, using this makes another 300page INDD doc. I need all the pages in one new page.

ImageCatalogueScript might have worked except that it creates a new 8.5x11 page to put the images on. I need to be able to make my own size page.

An example would be to fit 300 3.4" w x 2.4" h pages from document A into onto a 40.8x60 page in document B like the screengrab attached.

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B38120085xc66Author
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June 21, 2024

oops wrong attachment...

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