Importing PDFs

[Lisa_G_Robertson@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

I'm using MS Windows XP & have a question regarding Indesign (CS 3.0.1) and importing PDFs.

Is there a way of importing a 40 page PDF in one go?

I regularly have to convert MS Word docs (50 pages) into PDFs and place them into an Indesign doc. The only way I know to do it is to convert the file to a PDF then extract each page seperately in Adobe Acrobat, save it as a separate file, then file/place it into Indesign.

As you can imagine this is very time consuming & tedious. I wondered if there was a better way to do it?

Would appreciate any suggestions.

[Bob_Levine]

Check the Adobe Studio Exchange. I'm pretty sure there's a script to
handle this.

Bob

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

The only way I know to do it is to convert the file to a PDF then extract
each page seperately in Adobe Acrobat, save it as a separate file, then
file/place it into Indesign.




Yes, there is a script in the Studio exchange.

But, do you know if you check the show options when placing it will lead you into another window that you can select the page and different bounding boxes of the pdf?

Since you mentioned extracting each page, it does not sound like you were aware of it.

[Marek Williams]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:12:43 -0700, Bob_Levine dijo:

>Check the Adobe Studio Exchange. I'm pretty sure there's a script to
>handle this.

There are several on Studio Exchange.

If the user is on a Mac, no problem.

If the user is on Windows, the scripts for multi-page PDF import on
Studio Exchange work only with InDesign 2.0. No one has fixed them to
run with CS. The problem is that Adobe, in its wisdom, decided to
change the version of Visual Basic that InDesign CS on Windows uses to
a later version. This broke almost all the 2.0 Windows scripts.

I have long wondered why they decided to do this when CS now uses
JavaScript, which is cross-platform. It seems that the trend is to go
completely to JavaScript eventually, so that scripts will
automatically work on both platforms. If that is the case, why not
just leave the Visual Basic scripts alone and let them die a natural
death?

Oh well.

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[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

Sorry, forgot I was on the Windows side of the fence.

Check out this script by Sir Olav for muli-page pdf import for CS <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bb45e68/8>

The script in the studio exchange for Windows is for version 2.

[Lisa_G_Robertson@adobeforums.com]

To John Kallios

Thank you for that, it has solved my problem!! Cheers Lisa