Comments on: Free Bundled Scripts on Adobe.com

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:38:52 +0000

Looking to center PDFs on the page, but stuck with the PlaceMultipagePDF script putting it in the top left (X:0, Y:0)? Just change two numbers in the script! Here's the easy fix: 1. Determine coordinates - Place a page from your PDF onto your document. Using the alignment tool, center the PDF vertically and horizontally to the page. - Note the new X and Y coordinates of the upper left corner of the object. 2. (Easy) Edit script - From the Scripts panel (Window > Automation > Scripts), locate the PlaceMultipagePDF script (.jsx or .applescript), right click and choose edit or reveal in finder and open it in the editor of your choice. - At around line 109 or so, change the [0,0] within myPDFPage = myPage.place(File(myPDFFile), [0,0])[0]; to your new coordinates, [x,y], respectively. - Save as new and run it, or just save and run and remember to change the coordinates back to [0,0] when done. Done!

By: jack

jack — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:58:08 +0000

Place multi page pdf . I get the size of the pdf I am importing from the Document setup in acrobat and make my InDesign doc. that size. Import the pages into InDesign then change page size in Indesign to your actual page size and bingo your done. HUGE timesaver for me.

By: Esther

Esther — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:41:10 +0000

I created a 6 x 9 – 280 page book in InDesign (CS3) with an inside margin of 0.5 inches. I’ve recently changed the margin to .75, but my text box remains the same at .5 inches.

Is there a way to change the text frame to conincide with the margin at .75 as well, without having to manually move the frame to .75 for all 250 pages?

Any tip will be grately appreciated.

Did I mention I’m quite new to InDesign? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an easy fix, but I would really appreciate it if you could poing me to the right direction.

By: Big-B

Big-B — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:36:44 +0000

Kikki,
I have run into a the same problem with books in the past. You want to change the margins on all the pages with out it effecting the text, bumping headers to a next page, ect.. ect… Their are a few ways to go about this and the best way will depend largely up the content of the book. A quick solution is to PDF the document as is. In pit stop or the Acrobat Pro re-size the whole doc so it will fit in the need margins and your page size, then set up a new document in In-deign with the correct margins. Use the place multiple PDF’s Script and there you have it.

-I have used this trick to center my place multiple PDF’s script too. For intense some one sends me a 400 page book in a Microsoft word doc. The margins are set for a 8.5 X 5.5 Book but the page size is 8.5 X 11 and it is justified in the upper left hand corner. I will then set up my template in In-design to accommodate any bindery needed bleeds the pinch, grinding, ect… I PDF the Word doc and in Acrobat Pro I will then crop the whole doc at one time to the size of my In-design page with the margins I need, (at this point you could just crop so the page is center.) save file. Go back to the InDesign file use the place multiple PDF’s script and if your math is right everything should fall in to place. The sweet thing is after doing this one or two times it shouldn’t take more then ten minutes and beats the pants off of placing 400 pages manually in your margins!

By: Kikki

Kikki — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:47:57 +0000

Hi,
I’m really very new to Indesign cs2 and have a prb I just cannot solve:
I want to change the margins for the whole document (280 pages) and though I have done this in the master nothing changes on the document pages. If I do it manually each page, at one page in the documet things ’stops’ – that is – as the text is getting longer ( as I am diminishing the margins of the pages), instead of the text just continuing on to next pages – at one point of the document the text which is moving is putting itself on top of the other text…. (and I have tried to delete ‘new section’ in case that is the prb.). Anyone? THANKS!

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:32:52 +0000

Hilda, if you have Adobe Acrobat Pro you can simply go to File > Export > Image and choose JPEG there. It’ll let you choose the JPEG settings and will then save each page as a JPEG file.

You could also drag the PDF to Photoshop to open the pages there (with the ability to set resolution and size) and then save the files from there. Not as quick, but if you have Photoshop it’s free.

By: Patrick Taylor

Patrick Taylor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Hi Hilda! I have been using Magic PDF software and it works well in converting PDF document into JPG format. You can check it out at. http://www.magic-PDF.com.

By: Hilda Thompson

Hilda Thompson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:37:46 +0000

Hi guys, I need to convert a PDF document into JPG format. Pls help me

By: Harbs

Harbs — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:39:46 +0000

I mean you generally have to try a lot more with AppleScript to do the same thing as a JavaScript. An AppleScript is almost always many more lines than JavaScript. I don’t know if that makes a difference in terms of performance.

There’s an awful lot that can effect performance in scripts. I’m not sure how a “whose” performs, but in this script, I’m almost positive that my version will be faster — especially when there’s a lot of text frames…

I personally find all the tell/end tell statements to be hard to keep track of in AppleScript. Also, I think conceptually and AppleScript is (purposely) a much more verbal language…

By: Old Jeremy

Old Jeremy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:59:28 +0000

Harbs,

You said that Javascript is less verbose than Applescript, and I’m guessing you’re talking about the length of the incomprehensible “zeroes and ones” that a compiler turns into machine code (or whatever it’s called) before a script can do its thing.

I wonder does this verbosity make AppleScript work slower than JavaScript? If so, that would explain a couple of embarrassing moments — dragging into agonizing, interminable minutes — when I was trying to promote myself in my new career, saying “it doesn’t usually take this long!”

Even if AppleScript is slower than JavaScript, its user-friendliness and relative accessibility draw in new scripters, and swell the numbers of people exchanging ideas and disagreeing with each other. That’s great, I think — and it’s thanks to a different sort of “verbosity”: the way it mimics ordinary (English) speech.