Hi I have a question if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.
I currently have an in design file that has 3 areas for PDF placements. What happens is I get separate PDF files and I have to place them on a "spread" so we can batch print out everything. Right now I have to manually select each PDF to place it in it's proper place. I've searched and found some ways to place the PDFs when it's one up on a sheet but in this case the PDF is 3 up on one sheet.
Currently I select file to place.
I have a template setup and I place my PDF into that area which is setup to shrink to 35%.
Then I do this manually for over 100 PDFs.
Does anybody have any ideas how to make this happen quicker?
There is no direct, built-in method to do what you want in InDesign. However, I suspect that you could readily put together a Javascript script to do this within InDesign optimized to your particular needs. You might check on the Adobe User-to-User forums for assistance with this.
Note though that if you are simply using InDesign as a poor-man's imposition tool (just doing 3-up as opposed to having other significant content on the InDesign document pages), there are much better solutions in terms of Acrobat plug-ins. For example, one such plug-in is Quite Software's “Quite Imposing” products.
Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems Incorporated specializing in PDF publishing workflow, PDF print standards, prepress, and printing. He is also chair of the ISO TC130 WG2/TF2 group responsible for PDF/X standards.