Duplicating a group of pages (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. But is there a way I can quickly duplicate pages in the order above?

Thanks!

[Willi Adelberger]

Hold down the alt key and move the page to the place where you want it.

[TGMike]

I know that trick, and that works fine for smaller jobs (in fact, I have a script with a shortcut to do this), but 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.

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

It sounds like time for script. You might ask in the InDesign Scripting forum if you don't get a reply here:

InDesign Scripting

[TGMike]

Will do. Thanks!

[jane-e]

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Duplicating a large number of pages script (special)