Comments on: Placing All the Pages of a PDF Inside InDesign

By: gillinger

gillinger — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:56:02 +0000

Many thanks for the updated script! I had the original version which I used in CS2 but it didn’t work when I upgraded to CS5. The new version works a treat!

By: Jongware

Jongware — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:51:27 +0000

The Matt, when you select that in “show import options” you get all pages ‘loaded’ in your cursor and you still have to place them one at a time. The script does that for you, always at the right size and the right position, for any number of pages. You still can’t beat that doing by hand.

By: The Matt

The Matt — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:39:12 +0000

…or you could just click the ‘Show import options’, button when you go to place the image.

No script needed at all!

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:46:38 +0000

This just saved me hours of time. THANK YOU so much!

By: sourskittle

sourskittle — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:33:17 +0000

This saved me SO much time, thank you!

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By: Marcos

Marcos — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:05:42 +0000

How I can fit the images to the margins, not to the page?

By: A. Fox

A. Fox — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:57:23 +0000

Excellent script! Thanks so much! It worked perfectly on CS5. I copied the .jsx file into: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5\Scripts\Scripts Panel\Samples\JavaScript

… and the function showed up in my Windows >> Utilities >> Scripts panel just fine. I just double-clicked on PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx and it gave me the pop-up window so I could type in the specific criteria… beautiful! Thanks!

By: LGFN

LGFN — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:34:57 +0000

I’ve come up with a temporary solution, import everything automatically to a new layer, and if there’s any mistake just delete the layer and your back to square one. Simple. Maybe this can be a permanent solution, too. Maybe…

By: LGFN

LGFN — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:07:45 +0000

This script works amazing, and saved me countless hours of unnecessary labor. Really awesome!

Well, usually. All goes smooth until you notice, after importing hundreds of pages, that you mistakenly set it to the wrong setting. The relatively calm and organized workflow from hereon goes haywire! The problem: You got to hold down ctrl+z for the longest time to undo every bit of change the script has done to the document, and that is possibly five command per page! And then leave off at the exact right second, so it shouldn’t undo too much. Now, where have I left off? Did I make an undo too much? Too few?

Is there any way to make this script have a single undo command, to undo everything as if I have never run it in the first place?

With great appreciation!