Duplicating a large number of pages script (special)

[TGMike]

A fairly common problem for us is having a large file, say ~100 pages, where we have to duplicate each page X number times, so that each duped page is added after the original.

For example: I have to duplicate each page of a 100 page file 5x so that in the end I have a file with pages in this order: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3...

Normally when you duplicate 100 pages, it puts the pages at the end of the file. And while I know you can OPT-Drag pages to duplicate them where you want (in fact, I have a script with a shortcut to do this), many of our jobs are very large and it's not feasible to dupe 100 pages 5x each... 1 at a time. It's both too time consuming and introduces a large chance you'll make a mistake along the way.

Is there a script out there where you can quickly duplicate a large file in the order above? Or perhaps some trick to achieve the same result?

Thanks!

[Ronald63 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can try this snippet ...

var doc = app.documents[0];
var nbPage = doc.pages.length; // count doc pages
var n = 5; // duplicate number
for (i = 0; i < nbPage; i++) {
    var sourcePage = doc.pages.item(i + (i*n));
    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
        sourcePage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, doc.pages.item(i + (i*n)));
    }
}

[TGMike]

That's great - thank you!

While that is completely usable as is, is there any way to add a little popup so you can enter the number of duplicates you wanted?

Thanks again!

[Ronald63]

Like this ?

var n = prompt('Enter a number between 1 and 99.', '', 'Name of dialog');
var reg = /^\d{2}$/; 
if (reg.test(n)){
    var doc = app.documents[0];  
    var nbPage = doc.pages.length; // count doc pages  
    for (i = 0; i < nbPage; i++) {  
        var sourcePage = doc.pages.item(i + (i*n));  
        for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {  
            sourcePage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, doc.pages.item(i + (i*n)));  
        }  
    }  
}else{
    alert('Error \r Must be a number between 1 to 99');
}

[Ronald63]

Oups my regex was wrong ...

var n = prompt('Enter a number between 1 and 99.', '', 'Name of dialog');  
var reg = /^\d{1,2}$/;   
if (reg.test(n)){  
    var doc = app.documents[0];    
    var nbPage = doc.pages.length; // count doc pages    
    for (i = 0; i < nbPage; i++) {    
        var sourcePage = doc.pages.item(i + (i*n));    
        for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {    
            sourcePage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, doc.pages.item(i + (i*n)));    
        }    
    }    
}else{  
    alert('Error \r Must be a number between 1 to 99');  
}

[TGMike]

That is *exactly* what I needed - THANK YOU!

[MBM Georgia]

you've just saved me a lot of time, thank you so much

[Guest]

I'm new to scripts, so here is my question. I have a large document of 1000 pages, each of them needing a different number of copies per page (from 2 - 6 copies ) do i create this script 5 times ?

Script 1 make 2 copies of this page... script 2 make 3 copies of this page... script 3 make 4 copies of this page?

This is way better than dragging with the Ctrl function.

Here is the task I have to do

Page	copies
388	4
389	4
390	2
391	2
392	1
393	3
394	2
395	3
396	2
397	1
398	5
399	1
400	1
401	4
402	3
403	2
404	3
405	3
406	4
407	6
408	4
409	2
410	2
411	6
412	3
413	3
414	4
415	4
416	6
417	4
418	1
419	2
420	2
421	5
422	6
423	4
424	3
425	2
426	5
427	2
428	4
429	2
430	1
431	3
432	2
433	4
434	6
435	4
436	2
437	2
438	2
439	4
440	3
441	3
442	5
443	3
444	3
445	3
446	2
447	1
448	5
449	3
450	2
451	2
452	2
453	2
454	1
455	3
456	2
457	3
458	4
459	3
460	2
461	2
462	1
463	5
464	4
465	4
466	3
467	3
468	3
469	1
470	3
471	2
472	2
473	2
474	4
475	3
476	1
477	1
478	2
479	3
480	4
481	2
482	1
483	2
484	4
485	2
486	5
487	3
488	2
489	3
490	4
491	3
492	3
493	2
494	3
495	3
496	4
497	2
498	5
499	6
500	2
501	3
502	1
503	1
504	1
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506	3
507	4
508	5
509	1
510	3
511	4
512	5
513	3
514	3
515	3
516	5
517	2
518	1
519	2
520	3
521	2
522	3
523	5
524	5
525	5
526	1
527	3
528	3
529	3
530	4
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536	4
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540	3
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