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InDesign Secrets Video: Placing a Folder of Images

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Did you ever have a folder full of images that you wanted to place into an InDesign document, so that each image was placed on a different page? In the latest InDesign Secrets video on lynda.com, David Blatner shows how to accomplish the task with a pair of scripts. The first is the Image Catalog script that comes with InDesign. It’s super simple to use, but it has a few limitations, which David lists in the video.

lynda.com InDesignSecrets video

The second script is called ImagestoCSV, and you can download it from a related post here at InDesignSecrets. With this script you can use InDesign’s Data Merge function to place the images, and control the look of the image frames with an object style. Pretty nifty!

So check out the video and learn some cool time-saving tips for importing a bunch of images at once.

Editor in Chief of CreativePro. Instructor at LinkedIn Learning with courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher. Co-author of The Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide with Nigel French.
  • Scripter Roland Dreger has another way to accomplish this task with his photobook script: https://www.rolanddreger.net/index.php?id=310 (German language page, so browsing with Chrome may be necessary for anglophones like me).

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