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• • December 8, 2010 at 12:34 am #58029
    hemant998

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    I want to place 15 to 20 MSWord(.Doc) files at once click and as single story. Is this possible in CS5?
    How can it work?

    Please help me.

  • December 8, 2010 at 4:56 am #58033
    Anonymous

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    Firstly combine them in MS Word

    In Microsoft Word

    Start a new document

    Insert>File

    And choose the files in the order you need them

    Then save that file as a Word Document

    In InDesign

    File>Place and choose the new word file that you just combined

  • December 8, 2010 at 8:27 am #58035
    Theunis De Jong

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    See Importing multiple Word docs into InDesign on the Adobe InDesign forum.

  • December 13, 2010 at 1:03 am #58078
    hemant998

    Member

    Thanks..

    This is very helpful. but all files' content is not autoflowing. Is there any solution for this?

    Script has been used new Indesign file everytime. But I want to use my own templete. Is this possible?

  • December 13, 2010 at 3:05 am #58079
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    all files' content is not autoflowing. Is there any solution for this?

    Yes, see the Help on importing documents.

    Script has been used new Indesign file everytime. But I want to use my own templete. Is this possible?

    What script is that? (And see the Help on using templates.)

  • December 13, 2010 at 11:26 pm #58095
    hemant998

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    I am using Peter Kerhal's below mentioned script for Importing multiple DOC files. But it has been used new Indesign document and i want to use my template. So, Is it possible that script would be open template and than place all files. I want to add autoflowing option in this script only.. If possible than let me know. Pls help me.

    I am working with approx 2 to 3 books daily and each book has 50 to 60 word doc files.

  • December 13, 2010 at 11:28 pm #58096
    hemant998

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    Peter Kahrel's script

    // Description: Place multiple textfiles as one story

    #target indesign

    preset = '/d/test/*.rtf';

    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.useTypographersQuotes = true;
    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.convertPageBreaks = ConvertPageBreaks.none;
    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.importEndnotes = true;
    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.importFootnotes = true;
    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.importIndex = true;
    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.importTOC = false;
    app.wordRTFImportPreferences.importUnusedStyles = false;

    mask = prompt ('Enter a file path/mask.rr' +
    'Examples:r' +
    'd:bookstest*.rtf /d/books/test/*.rtf', preset);

    if (mask == null) exit(); // Cancel pressed

    ff = Folder (File (mask).path).getFiles (File (mask).name);
    if (ff.length > 0)
    {
    placed = [];
    missed = [];
    tframe = app.documents.add().textFrames.add({geometricBounds : [36, 36, 400, 400]});
    placedstory = tframe.parentStory;
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel =
    UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
    pb = initprogressbar (ff.length, 'Loading');
    for (i = 0; i < ff.length; i++)
    {
    pb.value = i;
    try
    {
    placedstory.insertionPoints[-1].place (ff[i]);
    placedstory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = 'rr';
    placed.push (ff[i].name);
    }
    catch (_)
    {
    missed.push( ff[i].name );
    }
    }
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel =
    UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
    inform = '';
    if (placed.length > 0)
    inform = 'Placed ' + ff.length + ' files (in this order):rr' + placed.join ('r');
    if (missed.length > 0)
    inform += 'rrCould not place:rr' + missed.join ('r');
    delete_empty_frames ();
    alert( inform );
    }
    else
    alert (mask + ' not found.');

    // End

    function delete_empty_frames ()
    {
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = 'AZ';
    var empties = app.activeDocument.findGrep (true);
    for (var i = 0; i < empties.length; i++)
    empties[i].parentTextFrames[0].remove()
    }

    function initprogressbar (stop, title)
    {
    progresswindow = new Window('palette', title);
    progressbar = progresswindow.add ('progressbar', undefined, 1, stop);
    progressbar.preferredSize = [200,20];
    progresswindow.show ()
    return progressbar;
    }

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