Import Multipage PDF with flow Windows

[Wordsmith818]

I am trying to import a PDF manuscript for a book into InDesign to produce a new edition, but it's not coming in with any ease. Forum thread818-1132821 gives a hint on how to do it on a MAC, but I have Windows and I can't even find a Script Palette, much less any clues on how to save the PDF to a script directory. I've tried using Place while holding the shift key while clicking, as the Help Guide says to do it, but it's not happening. I want to save the layout, but have full editing capabilities. Is this possible?

I have InDesign CS2, Acrobat 7.0, Windows XP.

Thanks.

 

[jimoblak]

http://studio.adobe.com

The multipage PDF import script has instructions.

You cannot edit PDF files in InDesign.

 

[Wordsmith818]

Thanks, but I have been unable to find the script at all. Nor have I found any help on my program to help me bring it in.

Are you telling me that the PDF comes in as a graphic and is not editable? When I bring it into Word it loses all its formatting and has the troublesome hard paragraph returns after each line. I need to edit this work. Anybody have any suggestions how I can do it?

Thank you again.

 

[senjinpojskic]

Depending on the type of PDF it may be possible to edit it but not in InD, try Illustrator.

 

[jimoblak]

Adobe has rearranged their web page. Look here instead...

http://share.studio.adobe.com/axQuickSearchSubmit.asp?txt=multipage&allprods=6

PDF files are output from another design file. Go to the properties in Acrobat and find out who created the document and with what application. Then ask the original author for authoring access to the original file.

 

[Ekwoman]

One of the main purposes of using a PDF file is so that items cannot be changed. You can do small edits in the full version of Acrobat, and have a little more control over things if you use PitStop (from Enfocus). If you open the PDF in Illustrator (which will have to be one page at a time, since AI doesn't support multipage docs) you may still have problems with fonts and missing graphics to start with...and the text won't flow from one page to the next. You can copy text from the PDF and paste it into InDesign, but you mentioned that you needed to save the layout. You're going to have to start with the original file (whether it was done in Quark, InDesign, Word, whatever).

If you have InDesign CS2, you can place a multipage PDF at one go...no script needed. It was not built into the app prior to CS2 and you would need a 3rd party plugin or script.