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• • February 23, 2013 at 3:43 pm #64272
    doktoren

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    Hi!

    I have coupied a houndred or so images from different websites and pasted them into indesign and I now want to arrange them. When working with placed images i know how to do this, however since i cannot place them I have no idea how to organize them in a grid without spending a few days. Does anyone know a good way of doing this?

    How should i go about doing this for another time?

    Alexander

  • February 23, 2013 at 7:26 pm #64273
    Tom Pardy

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    It’s always easy to be smart after the event and I am sorry if I come across like that. But it would have been better if, instead of simply copying the images from the web and pasting them into InDesign, you had saved them to disk. That would have allowed you to put them all in a folder and, from there Place them in InDesign in the usual way.

    How frustratingly fiddly would it be to export them from the InDesign document and then treat the exported images as you would any other images for Placing? Probably too much, since you’re talking about “a hundred or so”. Oh well, learn for next time.

  • February 24, 2013 at 4:51 am #64274
    Theunis De Jong

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    If you want to unembed all of your graphics so you can use the Place/Gridfy trick, you can use Peter Kahrel's script:

    https://www.kahrel.plus.com/ind…..mages.html

    I think this is easier and faster than trying to draw a new grid with empty rectangles, and then move your images one at a time into them. It also has the advantage that you then have a “local” copy of your images; and your InDesign file will sigh with relief when it's freed of several hundred megabytes of data.

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