How to Place a Multi Page PDF in InDesign

How to Place a Multi Page PDF in InDesign: This tutorial video shows how you can place a multi-page PDF in Adobe InDesign, via two methods:
1. Adobe Script, “PlaceMultiPagePDF.applescript”
2. Markzware PDFMarkz PDF to InDesign

Read more about multi-page pdf placement in Adobe InDesign, in our
"How to Place a Multi Page PDF in InDesign" article, at:
https://markzware.com/pdfmarkz/how-to-place-multi-page-pdf-indesign/

Download PDFMarkz, Markzware's application to open PDF files in InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and many other desktop publishing formats, at:
https://markzware.com/products/pdfmarkz/

The Adobe script, or InDesign script, method takes 5 steps, but you get a non-editable PDF placed throughout your page layout DTP .indd file:
1. Open the Window Menu - Utilities - Scripts.
2. Expand Application - Samples - JavaScript.
3. Select “PlaceMultipagePDF" ...
4. Browse and select the PDF you want to place.
5. Choose the document and the page number where you want to place it.
Source: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/place-a-multipage-pdf-in-indesign/td-p/11343293

The Markzware PDFMarkz method, once you download and install PDFMarkz, is two steps:
1. Open and Preview PDF in PDFMarkz
2. Convert multi=page PDF to InDesign with a click!

It’s that easy to get PDF pages placed in InDesign with PDFMarkz, not just placed, but actually converted! So, you can edit the PDF in InDesign, as the pages in your page layout are actual DTP elements and not PDF data! Go from PDF to InDesign, with all live text, fonts, styles, colors, images with links, and layers, and everything gets converted.

Now, you have a print or interactive PDF from any source file, back as an Adobe InDesign layout, with all elements! Those are the two options to place multi page PDFs in InDesign.

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How to Place a Multi Page PDF in InDesign

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Closed Caption:

hi everybody david dilling here on
behalf of markzware today we're going to
show you how to place a multi-page pdf
actually we're going to show you two
methods to do that all right it's really
cool and one method is going to give you
a lot more flexibility than the other so
let's go check it out so make a new
document i'm going to choose a letter or
a4 because that's like basically most
pdfs or those sizes right i mean they
can be any size but that's just in
general and the way to place a
multi-page pdf in adobe indesign is via
the window
utilities scripts
which i already have open and when that
i've cheated i've already done a sample
here a test when it comes in it looks
like this and if you choose application
you'll get samples and we choose samples
that's where it is seems a little
strange but that's where it is you click
apple script and get applescript you'll
get the
one and for someone dyslexic like me
it's difficult but there it is already
selected place multiple page pdf so we
move that away here and we double click
that
it's that easy to place a multi-page pdf
here we have one you can see it's
multi-pages
and we hit choose
we said start on page one it will place
the pdf starting on page one if you want
to start on a particular page of
multi-pages already that's handy you
start on one and there it goes
it starts doing page by page by page and
what's interesting take note of the time
actually we're just going to fast
forward here this this amount of time
takes about the same and the other
method we're going to show you after
this one okay there we have it so now we
see the pdf is placed it ends on the end
of the pdf and we can see over here we
have 64 65 pages on these spreads here
and we can check out all the information
if i try to click on image i can't if i
try to edit the text i can't if i look
at the link it's only showing the
information on the pdf matter of fact
it's showing me the information the
entire pdf not just the placed page here
so it's kind of tricky and there are
tricks to actually go here and
edit with we could actually go right to
the second method right now can you use
flightcheck to get more details
preflight the file or you could write in
the pdf marks
which what we're going to do right now
but what we're going to do is show you
the different way around to do that so
we're going to close this document so we
have nothing open in indesign so we get
our open window and pdf marks and we're
going to take the same pdf i'm going to
drag and drop it on pdf marks here pdf
marks a standalone application from our
marks line we have do the same thing for
quark files do the same thing for
indesign files use anything for
illustrator files matter of fact
illustrator files work right in pdf
marks the same way you drag and drop
your illustrator or your pdf on the icon
of pdf marks or the application and
you'll get a preview and conversion
options we see if we get some
information on the entire pdf and we can
see if we go here
down to page 64 we can see where we just
were looking that's the page and that's
really cool so this is how pdf marks
gives you a preview and then you can
just simply click here the indesign icon
convert it right to adobe indesign now
there's a lot of other options in
automation we're not going to get into
them just click indesign and off it goes
converting this pdf into an entirely new
indesign layout it'll look very similar
to what you just saw but will be fully
editable
there we see it opening up in the
background and now we can go over to
indesign and we'll see wow look at that
we got the entire document now perfectly
converted over there will be some minor
touching up to do in such a method for
instance you'll notice that the
the image here does need to be resized
to fit
better to how it was in the original
but that's not a big deal you just
adjust it and off you go and most
importantly go in and swap out images
you need to change because of resolution
issues or edits like you can actually
start doing entire
text changes you have live text full
layers styles colors everything you need
to edit the pdf properly right in adobe
indesign not in some pit stop or pdf
editor so that's how easy it is to
import pdf's multi-page pdfs or how to
place multi-page pdfs in adobe indesign
two methods the native indesign method
with the script
or the markzware method with pdf marks
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