I'm hoping someone out there will be able to save me a heap of time with this.
Basically, I have a 270-odd page pdf (proofs of a previously pulished book) that I need, if possible, to “place” into an InDesign document – effectively, I guess, so that each page is just an image by itself. There are then some amendments that need to be made, for publication of the paperback (on about 40 pages distributed throughout); so, where they're concerned, I'll just substitute the pages concerned with “real” InDesign pages, and make the necessary edits, and then re-export the whole thing into a new pdf.
Now, I do have an indd file of the original proofs, but unfortunately it's from an earlier phase of the correction process, so there will be lots of small changes throughout that I now can't identify. In other words, the pdf is more up-to-date than the indd file, and doing this would achieve a massive shortcut and save me lots of time.
The problem is that, when I try to “place” the pdf into InDesign (even if I specify that I want to include all of the pages) there doesn't seem to be any way of ensuring that the crop-marks in the pdf marry up with the edges of the page in InDesign, so I'd have to fiddle around with each page individually (and none of them seem to “snap” to where they need to be). Also, the SHIFT+LEFT CLICK trick doesn't seem to work for automatically generating the number of pages I need – as it would, for example, when placing a Word file.
I'd be indescribably grateful if anyone could help me out… !
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