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I know it is possible to place multiple pages from a PDF with autoflow using the scripts found within InDesign, however, I am wondering if it is possible also with another .indd file? I have manuals for the same products with different covers, but the content is the same within the manual. I don't want to have too many .indd files to maintain and would like the changes applied to one file to be carried over to the other. Is there a script or something that can make it possible for me to place the entire .indd file and not only the first page?
Thanks!
Hi biancaho ,
I would favour PDF placing.
Why?
1. There are some free scripts out for it.
2. You cannot place InDesign documents of higher version in lower version documents.
But if you want to do it with InDesign document files go ahead using this trick:
Check the option to do Static Captions while placing.
That will load the placegun with all the InDesign pages. Plus the captions, of course.
Don't get irritated by looking at the placegun cursor. It does not seem, that it is loaded with all the pages,
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Hi biancaho ,
I would favour PDF placing.
Why?
1. There are some free scripts out for it.
2. You cannot place InDesign documents of higher version in lower version documents.
But if you want to do it with InDesign document files go ahead using this trick:
Check the option to do Static Captions while placing.
That will load the placegun with all the InDesign pages. Plus the captions, of course.
Don't get irritated by looking at the placegun cursor. It does not seem, that it is loaded with all the pages, but it is.
If you reach the last page when placing the cursor is still filled with all the caption frames.
Just change the tool to the Select Tool to unload the placegun.
Here some screenshots from a movie I did after loading the placegun with a 10-pages InDesign document where the page numbers are the only contents of the document. German InDesign CC 2017.1.
Use the Options while placing.
Check Static Captions and Show Import Options.
Select All or Page Range:
The placegun is loaded.
With all pages and all captions!
Now get rid of the Static Captions:
Hope, that helps…
Regards,
Uwe
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Thank you!
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I didnt knew that either 🙂 Just yesterday I was placing an 8 page document by hand, no big whoop.
But I guess, when it comes to page count above ~15, youll better off using a script.
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Hi Jan,
depends if you are placing to predefined containers.
Then even 200 clicks may be faster than writing a script 🙂
Regards,
Uwe
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I assumed it couldnt be that hard to rewrite that bit…
on myPlacePDF(myDocument, myPage, myPDF)
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2017"
set myDone to false
set PDF crop of PDF place preferences to crop media
set myCounter to 1
repeat until myDone is true
tell myDocument
if myCounter > 1 then
set myPage to make page at after myPage
end if
end tell
set page number of PDF place preferences to myCounter
get page number of PDF place preferences
tell myPage
set myPDFPage to place myPDF
set myPDFPage to item 1 of myPDFPage
end tell
get properties of PDF attributes of myPDFPage
if myCounter = 1 then
set myFirstPage to page number of PDF attributes of myPDFPage
else
if page number of PDF attributes of myPDFPage = myFirstPage then
tell myPage to delete
set myDone to true
end if
end if
set myCounter to myCounter + 1
end repeat
end tell
end myPlacePDF
Only thing to find out, if these values are somewhere found within InD prefs:
set PDF crop of PDF place preferences to crop media
get page number of PDF place preferences