This script is great! I've managed to alter the script to make the labels and lines black, make their layer printing, have them display in millimeters with mm after it and now I'm going through adjusting the lines and boxes to be in mm instead as well. Great fun an very useful!

@ maryT, were you using CS2 before this? Sandee Cohen wrote an answer to exactly the same question in the Indesign mag #20 about the new behaviour in CS3. She wasn't able to provide a definite answer but it has something to do with the preview box, and if you tick it before or after selecting how many repeats you want.

Another method of doing this is to copy, paste in place (Ctrl + Shift + Alt + V) then enter a + (or -) sign and the dimension needed in the appropriate X Y position box.

Thank you, that is a very handy addition to my particular workflow! It gets better and better…

The main problem now is that I've downloaded the Indesign Scripting tutorials and guides and am finding out how to do it myself and not getting any work done.

@ Anne-Marie, another tip you might want to relay for first timers installing and working with scripts (that is so basic everyone else will know it already) is to get to the scripts folder in Windows just right click a script from Indesign and go to 'Reveal in Explorer'. I only found out the other day after years of navigating through about 10 folders everytime I wanted to install one…

Thanks heaps! Works great.

Using this script actually has another brilliant advantage; when you are placing a large PDF ticking the show import options involves bringing up the dialog box which can take a while to display the preview, then you've got to choose the right setting, all more clicks and more time. I've made scripts for all the different settings I use and just click one first and leave the options box turned off. Awesome!

Now… Would it be possible to do the same for the page of the PDF you want? E.g. Place page 3. Would be really handy for replacing one page with another one too.

This is annoying me too so I was glad to see this post, bit of a pity the fix isn't a bit more permanent. I want to crop to the the crop box though, and if I change MEDIA to CROP the script doesn't work… Any tips?