Placing more then one imported page per new document page.

[DL-BL]

First off, thanks a lot for maintaining the script!!

Now the issue: I have to import large Indesign documents into a new document, where the new document should have 4 A6 pages per A4 page. So, I would like to have a script to place 4 (reduced) A4 pages per A4 page before generating a new page. So there would have to be like a mini template where the number of pages and location/scale of the pages could be defined (per new page)... Is souch a thing even possible?

Cheers! Daniel

[mike-edel]

Hi Daniel,

I wonder if you couldn't get this to work differently. I know I had a similar feature on the imposition software of our xerox color printer. Let me think about it...

[DL-BL]

Hi Mike

I tried the imposition feature in Indesign, but its limited to very few templates, so that is a no go unfortunately…

And I also searched for other scripts and plug ins… but turned up empty so far.

So what ever might come up on your side, I thank you for the effort!!

[mike-edel]

I think I found a workaround but whether it works for you probably depends on how many pages you have to place.

Step 1: split source A4 pdf into 4 sources - 1 for each quadrant. Easiest way I found so far is by zooming out in the Organize Pages view of Acrobat Pro until you see 4 columns of pages. Drag a selection down until you have the whole column selected. Extract those selected pages as a new pdf. Repeat that for all 4 columns:

Result:

Step 2: place using MultipageImporter (once for each quadrant) Set scale to 50% place first column in top left second column in top right and so on: I generally prefer to create a new layer for each pdf so I can easily get rid of it if something goes wrong. Result:

Would be great to know if this helps. Cheers, Mike

[mike-edel]

ps: implementing this could become pretty tricky - and this is more or less the first time I get asked about it.

[DL-BL]

WOW!

Hi mike

That looks interesting! I’ll give it a try and mail you back.

Thanks a lot!

I don’t work on Mondays though, so you’ll have to wait till Tuesday…

Cheers!

Daniel

[DL-BL]

Hi mike

No problem! Maybe your first mail already solved my problem!

Cheers

Daniel

[DL-BL]

Hi Mike!

Sorry for my late response!!

It was a very busy week. I guess you know that…

I tried your suggestion with a relatively small file and it was actually quite easy to get the wanted result! Great!

We are still waiting on the big files to come in and then they indeed will be urgent 😊

But I think it should be doable! Thanks a lot!!

Cheers

Daniel

Von: Mike notifications@github.com Antworten an: mike-edel/ID-MultiPageImporter reply@reply.github.com Datum: Samstag, 19. Oktober 2019 um 23:26 An: mike-edel/ID-MultiPageImporter ID-MultiPageImporter@noreply.github.com Cc: Daniel Lauber d.lauber@datacomm.ch, Author author@noreply.github.com Betreff: Re: [mike-edel/ID-MultiPageImporter] Placing more then one imported page per new document page. (#8)

I think I found a workaround but whether it works for you probably depends on how many pages you have to place.

Step 1: split source A4 pdf into 4 sources - 1 for each quadrant. Easiest way I found so far is by zooming out in the Organize Pages view of Acrobat Pro until you see 4 columns of pages. Drag a selection down until you have the whole column selected. Extract those selected pages as a new pdf. Repeat that for all 4 columns:

Result:

Step 2: place using MultipageImporter (once for each quadrant) Set scale to 50% place first column in top left second column in top right and so on:

I generally prefer to create a new layer for each pdf so I can easily get rid of it if something goes wrong. Result:

Would be great to know if this helps. Cheers, Mike

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[mike-edel]

Closing for now as there is a working workaround and there were no further requests like this.