InDesign Imposing

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October 1, 2019
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Hi all,

I work for a company who does a lot of printing.

I am a desktop publisher myself and I have the task to prepare the documents. As it is useful to use an imposing program, I rather like to use InDesign, as it is most useful for me and my colleagues. I have used quite imposing in the past and it is amazing.

Now the question is, I would like to find a script that makes it possible to put a document a given amount of times on a page.

Let’s say you have a document with the size of A3, and I want to put 4 A5 pages on it, I would like the script to do this for me.

As in if the document is A6 it will put it 8 times on a A3.

Is this possible with scripting?

Or do you guys have tips for using an plugin to get this done.

Would love to hear your tips and feedback 🙂

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D4v3

Inspiring

Hi,

If you are going to be doing this a lot, you could just create InDesign templates for each imposition. An 4-up A5 on SRA3, for example with the images/PDFs placed manually. Once this is done and you have new/different A5 artwork, you can then just use the template and relink to the new artwork. This is how we do it when planning up small format jobs without the need for impostition software.

Loic.Aigon

Legend

Hi all,

IMHO, I think dealing with Imposition within InDesign isn't the best practice. While you will achieve anything with Scripting, you have very easier ways to proceed. True Imposition Software can be pricey but with Callas pdfToolbox you can achieve imposition very easily thanks to ready-made schemas or create yours on purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8RKo5VAwc

I can give you more details in PM.

Loic