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apylyser
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February 15, 2020
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Importing pdf into Indesign

  • February 15, 2020
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Hey,

 

I have a PDF with a floorplan of an event our company will be at. I would like to use this floorplan on the backside of a flyer. When I import the PDF - first drawing a frame and then placing (ctrl+d) the pdf - some parts are missing.

 

Here is what it looks like after I import the pdf in Indesign:

Here is the complete floorplan:

 

Here is a link to the pdf if you would like to take a look.

Is it possible to import all elements of the pdf?

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Correct answer Willi Adelberger

Open the PDF in Acrobat Pro. There is a Preflight Profile which flattens comments and annotations to be part of the PDF. After doing it, you can place that PDF into InDesign and everything remains visible.

This task can be automated to a batch processing.

Sorry, I don't remember the exact name of the Preflight Profile as I use Acrobat Pro in German in most cases.

 

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apylyserAuthor
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February 16, 2020

Thank you all for the suggestions. I was able to import the whole document by using a PDF fixup profile (flatten annotations and form fields) in Adobe Acrobat preflight.

 

Greetings,

Alexander

Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
February 16, 2020

Open the PDF in Acrobat Pro. There is a Preflight Profile which flattens comments and annotations to be part of the PDF. After doing it, you can place that PDF into InDesign and everything remains visible.

This task can be automated to a batch processing.

Sorry, I don't remember the exact name of the Preflight Profile as I use Acrobat Pro in German in most cases.

 

    David Popham
    David Popham
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    February 15, 2020

    As Bob indicated, the content that is missing is annotated content. Make a copy of the PDF and try opening in Photoshop, choose Save As, choose Format: Photoshop PDF and use the default High Quality settings in the Save Adobe PDF dialog. That will flatten all of the content, including the annotations, into a single image layer.

    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    February 15, 2020
    If you open that PDF in Acrobat Pro you'll see that a good deal of that content is actually annotations. InDesign will not import that.
      BobLevine
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      BobLevineCommunity Expert
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      February 15, 2020
      BTW, there are 328 of them.
      Scott Citron
      Scott Citron
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      February 15, 2020

      Is this a layered PDF? If so, I suggest either making a flattened PDF version or, when Placing in ID holding the Shift key to trigger the ID import options dialog. In the dialog click the Layers tab and make sure all layers are selected.

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