Comments on: Zanelli Releases MultiPageImporter for Importing both PDF and INDD Files

By: Koby Goldberg

Koby Goldberg — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:08:47 +0000

Does anyone know a way to batch import images into Indesign, each one in a different page ?
The same ideal as zanelli’s script, but for a folder of images (JPEG, TIFF, PSD etc) instead of PDF/INDD files.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:51:12 +0000

Thanks for this, it saves us bundles of time

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:10:23 +0000

I have been asked to recreate two books that are now out of print. One is 2000 pages and the other is 1000 pages.
I’ve been asked to scan the pages and drop them page by page into a new document.
What is the best way for me to achieve this?

By: Tobster

Tobster — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:34:27 +0000

We publish 100 page books that are produced as seperate spreads at a time so that we can have various files out to various dept stages. In the end, I end up opening 50 IN design docs one at a time and saving out two single PDFs that need to be renamed page 1 and 2 for example. IS there an automated way to drop my Indesign docs on a droplet that will automatically open and write the two pDFs automatically?

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:26:31 +0000

I installed this on my PC at work, and it sometimes gives me the annoying error message of “error:this would cause one or more objects to leave the pasteboard,” and doesn’t work. I’m importing the same test file into different files, and it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn’t. Oddly enough, it doesn’t work when I try to place the test file onto a document made from the same template as the the test file, but it does work when I place it onto a file made from a completely different template. Any ideas?

I hate that pasteboard error. I’ve gotten that error in other situations for no explicable reason, and so have my collegeauges. We all hate it because we’ve never been able to understand why it happens.

By: Jean-Claude Tremblay

Jean-Claude Tremblay — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:16:52 +0000

One little options that is missing in that marvelous script and also in the native place command in Indesign, is the ability to place in “Reverse Order” and “Rotate 180 degree”. This could help a lot when trying to build document that shall be printed “tumbled” or “head-to-tail”. Meaning half a book is printed one way, and the other half the other way when the book is flipped upside down.

By: Bethany Vogelsberg

Bethany Vogelsberg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:25:24 +0000

To answer David Blatner’s question:

I work at a Chicago company that publishes newspapers in different neighborhoods, and a few of our sections are shared. Once the shared sections are laid out, they need to be placed onto the correct pages for each paper. We’re currently using Layout Zone and snippets, but these methods can’t deal with text that jumps to another spread. You lose your automated next page/previous page jump lines, and the text frames are no longer linked. As a work around, I’ve been grouping the jump page elements and dragging it onto the workspace of the opening page, and then I’m able to select all elements of the layout when exporting, retaining my jumps. If this script solves these issues, it’ll be awesome cause it’ll eliminate workflow steps and avoid the additional files produced when exporting shared versions.

By: Harbs

Harbs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:00:13 +0000

Brooks,

The ImageCatalog script which comes with inDesign can do what you want. Another option is the Bridge Contact Sheet script.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:50:22 +0000

@Brooks: Interesting idea, but your need is a little different. The script takes a single multi-page file and splits it up… You want to take a bunch of independent files and place them. One idea, though: Use Acrobat Pro to merge all the images together into a single PDF (using File > Combine Files) and then use this script to make the InDesign file out of that PDF file.

By: Brooks Jensen

Brooks Jensen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:47:00 +0000

Dumb question, but is there anyway to do this with images? We often import 60-80 images into a templated layout and want each image on its own page, centered on the page. Loading all the images into the cursor was a great workflow enhancement with CS3, but we still have to click on the page for each image, navigate the next page, click again — 80 times. I like the idea of this script, but is there a similar workflow for simple PSD or JPG images?
Brooks