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Is there a way to open a several paged document?

Sep 2, 2009 3:50 AM

hi, was just wondering if anyone knew how to access the rest of a documents pages from a PDF with out having to open each page separatly  when in illustrator? as whenever I try to open it I can only get to each page individually

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  • Mario Arizmendi
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    1. Mario Arizmendi,
    Sep 2, 2009 10:14 AM   in reply to kduffield
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    See attached a script that does that, but you need to have CS4, because it converts pdf pages into artboards,This script is from someone I can't remember now, thannks to him for sharing.

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  • jay fresno
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    2. jay fresno,
    Oct 1, 2009 9:04 PM   in reply to Mario Arizmendi
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    Mario,

    This script sounds great, and is exactly what I need. I'd appreciate if you would explain how to install and use the script. Does it work with both Mac and PC?

     
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  • Mario Arizmendi
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    3. Mario Arizmendi,
    Oct 2, 2009 5:57 AM   in reply to jay fresno
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    Sure, just download and unzip the file, store it on the desktop or where ever you want, this is a drog and drop script so, just do that with the file you want to convert and that's it..

    I tested this in a Mac but not in a PC, give it  atry and tell me.

     

    enjoy

     

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  • jay fresno
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    4. jay fresno,
    Oct 2, 2009 9:22 AM   in reply to Mario Arizmendi
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    Mario,

     

    Works like a charm on Mac, but is not compatible with PC. Do you know of a similar script for PC?

     
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  • E Diane King
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    5. E Diane King,
    Sep 8, 2010 2:50 PM   in reply to Mario Arizmendi
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    Any chance there is something like this for CS5?  I just tried using attached script and I do have CS4 as well as CS5, but it didn't appear to work.

     
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  • Larry G. Schneider
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    6. Larry G. Schneider,
    Sep 9, 2010 10:24 AM   in reply to E Diane King
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    Likely this script/app specifies AICS4 as the application to be targeted upon running the script. But it works fine in CS4, just drag a multi-page pdf to the script/app icon and it will ask you how you want the artboards laid out and will proceed to make a file with all the pages. Then save the file and reopen in AICS5 and resave it as a AICS5 file if you need the new bells and whistles.

     
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  • E Diane King
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    7. E Diane King,
    Sep 16, 2010 11:03 AM   in reply to Larry G. Schneider
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    I know it should work that way, but it didn't.  Even when I closed AI CS5 and opened AI CS4 and then dropped the file on the script, nothing happened.  The script opened but nothing popped up, the script didn't proceed to do anything. Luckily we still have a couple non-Intel workstations that we weren't able to put CS5 on, so I ran the script on one of those and it worked flawlessly.  I certainly hope that the script eventually gets upgraded to CS5 because we probably will get rid of those outdated workstations eventually.

     
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  • Larry G. Schneider
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    8. Larry G. Schneider,
    Sep 16, 2010 11:21 AM   in reply to E Diane King
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    Mine is an Intel machine and it works fine. But I don't have CS5 installed.

     
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  • E Diane King
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    9. E Diane King,
    Sep 16, 2010 11:30 AM   in reply to Larry G. Schneider
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    I didn't think it was an Intel issue.  I tried it on a non-Intel because all our Intels have CS5 on them, and I think having the newer app is causing the script not to work. Not sure if that could be an easy tweak in the script to make it launch the correct app when there are several to choose from . . . I wouldn't begin to know how to fix it.

     
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  • Larry G. Schneider
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    10. Larry G. Schneider,
    Sep 16, 2010 12:26 PM   in reply to E Diane King
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    Since it's compled as an app, there is no easy way to get to the script that I know. I tried the solutions from Script Editor Help but neither worked.

     
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  • E Diane King
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    11. E Diane King,
    Sep 16, 2010 12:36 PM   in reply to Larry G. Schneider
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    I sent a private message to Shane Stanley, but he replied that he has not upgraded to CS5 yet.  I guess a lot of people haven't. We made the jump from CS3 to CS5 and only have CS4 because we bought it right when CS5 was released so that we could get both suites for the upgrade to one.

     
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  • nvhdab
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    12. nvhdab,
    Jul 28, 2011 8:04 AM   in reply to kduffield
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    Brilliant! Thanks a lot!

     
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  • markjrenvoi
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    13. markjrenvoi,
    Sep 15, 2011 11:17 AM   in reply to kduffield
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    In case anyone finds this as I did, here is a post with the updated CS5 / OS 10.6 version:

     

    http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2011/03/convert-pdf-pages-to-illustr ator.html

     
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