Automate Layout to Fit Content
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Learn / Forums / General InDesign Topics / Automate Layout to Fit Content
Tagged: automate, fit, InDesign, layout, liquid layout, masterpages, pages, script, scripts
I used data merge to create over 50 different versions of a page, and am wondering if there is a way to automate changing page/layout sizes to fit the content? Kind of like a “Fit Artboard to Content” in Illustrator. So I don’t have to manually drag each individual page size to match the content? I can’t seem to find anything on this.
There’s nothing built-in but…
If you select all the objects (and sometimes it helps to group them first), this script by Olav Martin Kvern will resize the page to fit the selection:
https://creativepro.com/downloads/SizePageToThing.jsx
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