Reply To: Inhouse setup for 5-up print

Hi David.

Thank you very much, I appreciate your reply. I tried placing the pages of the PDF back into a new ID file, but it still takes quite a lot of manual moving. I will try my best to explain how I ended setting it up:

– I data merged the postcards to create a PDF (1-up).
– Using this postcard PDF, I placed all the pages into my A3 document using the PDFplacer script.
– Since this script places every PDF on its own page, I had to manually move each postcard so that I had 5 cards on every A3 page.
– On my A3 document master page, I created 5 image frames the size of the postcards (3 vertically on the top and 2 horizontally at the bottom).
– For each page, I then rotated 3 postcards to 90 degrees (because there are 3 vertically).
– I then used the swapitems script to replace the image frames with the postcard.

Whew! Hope I didn't confuse you. As you can tell, this wasn't the most efficient way of going about it.

What imposition programs do you recommend? Thanks. =)