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• • May 14, 2010 at 2:50 am #55700
    Carlos Fandango

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    OK, I have a 4500 page A4 PDF that I am going to need to place into an InDesign CS4 imposition that I have (2up A4 on SRA3 with trims). Obviously I would like to automate this rather than placing it manually! I have tried some PDF import apps & scripts, but only seem to get a PDF-per-page result. How do I get the PDF into existing image boxes sequentially? any useful advice will be gratefully & humbly accepted! Carlos

  • May 16, 2010 at 2:03 am #55716
    Colin Flashman

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    i'd suggest breaking the 4500 pg file up into 4500 single page pdfs and then named using bridge using the batch rename feature so that each page has a name something like 0046.pdf, 0047.pdf etc. from here, its possible to do what you want using data merge – a data file needs to be created manually.

    this is how it CAN be done, but if i was doing this at my work i'd do an imposition in preps, then build a job ticket in the RIP and export either to the printer or a pdf file. whichever way it is created, it will still make a massive pdf file.

    hope this makes sense.

  • May 16, 2010 at 6:28 am #55717
    Anonymous

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    There are some impostion software for Acrobat, like Quite Imposing, it's a few quid but certainly save you a heartbreak here.

  • May 19, 2010 at 10:16 pm #55776
    nick lamme

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    Look, imposition is a dirty job unless you have a healthy budget. But, here are a couple of links. I use both of these regularly. Sometimes, I have to do a workaround or two, but they have saved me hours and hours of painstaking imposition.

    https://www.croptima.com

    https://www.impositionsoftware.com

    Hope that these links help.

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