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Inspiring
March 14, 2021
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Would it be possible to load the cursor with pages and place them at a pre-defined percentage?

  • March 14, 2021
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I'm wondering if this would even be possible.

I imagine that I could place a folder of pages automatically one for each page and then scale them by a pre-defined percentage, but would it be possible to do that with a cursor loaded with pages? So basically when you clicked in the upper left corner to place a page it would place at for example 93% the actual scale? 

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Correct answer Luke Jennings3

To expand a bit on the answers already given, From Acrobat you can go to File> Create> Combine files into single PDF, drag all of your tiffs into the window to create a multipage PDF, then use the script to place & scale. Or place all the tiffs at 100%, scale the first tiff, then use Object> Transform again. Another option would be to place the tiffs into a new InDesign file at 100%, save, then open your original InDesign file and use the MultiPage Importer script to place the new InDesign file into the original file (the script works with InDesign files just as well as multipage PDFs).

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Community Expert
March 15, 2021

To expand a bit on the answers already given, From Acrobat you can go to File> Create> Combine files into single PDF, drag all of your tiffs into the window to create a multipage PDF, then use the script to place & scale. Or place all the tiffs at 100%, scale the first tiff, then use Object> Transform again. Another option would be to place the tiffs into a new InDesign file at 100%, save, then open your original InDesign file and use the MultiPage Importer script to place the new InDesign file into the original file (the script works with InDesign files just as well as multipage PDFs).

Community Expert
March 14, 2021

There is already a script called MultiPage Importer that will do just that.

https://creativepro.com/placing-all-the-pages-of-a-pdf-inside-indesign/

Inspiring
March 14, 2021

No, unfortunately not. These are tiff files not PDFs

Inspiring
March 14, 2021

It's a good place to start though. Thank you.