1-Master Page, 2-add 55 pages based on Master, 3-import 55 page pdf ..

[SebastianStudios007]

I have created a Master Page that will have a Box where I will want to insert a page from the 55 page PDF, the entire document will need to be 55 pages long, and I want each page to be based on the Master Page, who do I create a 55 page document based on the Master Page?

Once that is completed what is the easiest way to import the 55 page pdf and have them Fitting: Fit Proportionately to the graphic box I have created. I want to have each page of the PDF added to a single pages, Graphic box.





Thank you for reading and replying to my Post,

Kindest Regards,

Sebastian

 

[eugenetyson]

Create a master page.

Alt Click on the Pages panel on the button beside the trash can at the bottom. It should say new page.

Alt Click will bring up a dialogue box.

Choose 54 pages (as you already have one page) then select from the Master Page drop down list the master you want applied.

File>Place

Find the PDF

Zoom out loads and loads

View>Grids and Guides>Snap to Guides

Click each page at the top corner, get as close to the top left corner of each page, as it will snap to that guide

Click each PDF page onto each page.

When that is done, with the select tool, select each page and press Ctrl Shift M to center each PDF, use alt with this if you want it to scale proportionately.

You can select two text boxes on a spread to speed up your process.

It should take about 5 minutes.

Eugene

 

[eugenetyson]

And you can try this out

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1046534

I don't know though, I've never used it.

 

[apepp]

...this applescript below is useful for importing multiple page pdf files (tested in CS3, PPC Mac) into indesign. PDF pages do need to be same size into indesign, changing the crop box is detailed in the code below by changing two words in the script...

...not tested in intel mac as yet...

Andrew

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tell application "Finder"
activate
set mypdf to choose file with prompt "Choose the PDF you want to place in InDesign" as string
open file mypdf using application file id "CARO"
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
activate
set b to get bleed box of page 1 of active doc
set w1 to item 3 of b as integer
set w0 to item 1 of b as integer
set h1 to item 2 of b as integer
set h0 to item 4 of b as integer
set PDFheight to (h1 - h0) / 72
set PDFwidth to (w1 - w0) / 72
set pagecount to count every page of active doc
set idh to PDFheight & " i" as string
set idw to PDFwidth & " i" as string

end tell
set idpage to 1
set pdfpage to 1

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
activate
set mydoc to make document
tell document preferences of mydoc
set facing pages to false
set page width to idw
set page height to idh
set pages per document to pagecount

end tell
repeat pagecount times
set page number of PDF place preferences to pdfpage

-- the "crop PDF" parameter can be changed to the following: crop content/crop art/
--crop PDF/crop trim/crop bleed/crop media/crop content/crop art/¬
--crop PDF / crop trim / crop bleed / crop media

set PDF crop of PDF place preferences to crop bleed

set mypdfpage to place mypdf on page idpage of mydoc
set idpage to idpage + 1
set pdfpage to pdfpage + 1
end repeat
end tell
end tell


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[apepp]

...to add...

...once imported using the script (this is set to include bleed box), change the document setup to the trimmed size...

Andrew