Indesign Place Multiple Page Pdf

The Place command is the primary method used to insert graphics into InDesign because it provides the highest level of support for resolution, file formats, multipage PDF and INDD files, and color. To place graphics is also referred to as import images and insert pictures.

If you’re creating a document in which those characteristics aren’t critical, you can copy and paste to import graphics InDesign. Pasting, however, embeds a graphic in a document; the link to the original graphic file is broken and doesn’t appear in the Links panel, and you can’t update the graphic from the original file. However, pasting Illustrator graphics allows you to edit paths in InDesign. See Importing Adobe Illustrator graphics.

The options available to you when you place a graphics file depend on the type of graphic. These options appear when you select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box. If you don’t select Show Import Options, InDesign applies the default settings or the last settings used in placing a graphics file of that type.

The names of graphics you’ve placed (imported) appear in the Links panel.

Adobe InDesign is a multifunctional desktop publishing program that is able to handle PDF (Portable Document Format) files along with many other kinds of files. It is very easy to import a PDF file into an Adobe InDesign document, with several different methods to choose from. After importing the. Dec 12, 2018  place the PDF into a one-page InDesign file but make sure that the show import options checkbox is on. Once the PDF dialog box appears, select all pages, media size and click OK. With the place-gun visible, place the links anywhere in the file, making sure to click-place, not click-drag-place (which will scale the artwork). I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to automatically flow a multiple-page PDF into InDesign CS5. I have a 350 page PDF that I need to import, each page of the PDF as a new page in the document. Something that works like the shift + click with a loaded cursor for word documents? Or a script that allows me to place PDFs that way?

  1. It has the option to place not just a multiple paged PDF but also a folder of images (which may also contain PDFs). If there aren't enough picture frames selected on the page, an option lets you duplicate the original page and continue filling the boxes until all images or pages have been placed. Try it out and give me some feedback!
  2. The dialog box includes a preview, so you can view a thumbnail of the pages before you place them. If you place multiple pages, InDesign reloads the graphics icon with the next page, letting you place the pages one after the next. InDesign doesn’t import movies, sound, links, or buttons when you place a PDF file.
  3. I've tried 'placing' the multiple-page PDF into InDesign and it comes in as 'first page only.' I know that you can drop a multi-page document onto the Illustrator dock icon and a dialog comes up to allow you to chose pages and format. This does not work as I tried this approach also with InDesign. So, I come here to ask.
  4. InDesign allows you place a multipage PDF (via the Place option/show import options). However, if you have a fifteen page PDF, you’ll have to click fifteen times to place all the pages on a new page. This process gets tedious after a while. Luckily there’s an easier way. Use MultiPageImporter2.5.jsx by Scott Zanelli.

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If you place or drag a graphic from a removable media, such as a CD‑ROM, the link breaks when you remove that media from your system.

    • To import a graphic without first creatinga frame, make sure that nothing in the document is selected.

    • To import a graphic into an existing frame, selectthe frame. If the new image is larger than the frame, you can refitthe frame later by choosing Object > Fitting > [fitting command].

    • To replace an existing image, select its graphicsframe.

  2. Choose File > Place and select one or moregraphics files of any available format.

    If you select multiple files, you can click or drag inthe document to place the selected files one at a time. (See Placemultiple graphics.)

  3. To replace an object you selected, select Replace SelectedItem.
  4. To add a caption based on the image metadata, selectCreate Static Captions. See Generatea caption from an image.
  5. To set format-specific import options, do one of thefollowing:

    • Select Show Import Options, and then click Open.

    • Hold down Shift as you click Open or Shift-double-click a filename.

    Note:

    When you place a graphic created in Illustrator 9.0 or later by using the Show Import Options dialog box, the options are identical to those for PDFs. When you place an Illustrator 5.5–8.x graphic, the options are identical to those for EPS files.

  6. If the Image Import Options dialog box appears (becauseyou chose to set format-specific import options), select importoptions and click OK. (See Importoptions for graphics.)

    • To import into a new frame, drag to create a frame. Or, click the loaded graphics icon in the layout at the place where you want the upper-left corner of the graphic to appear.

    Note:

    When you drag to create a frame, the frame has the same proportions as the graphic unless you Shift-drag.

    • To import into an existing frame which is not selected, click the loaded graphics icon anywhere in that frame.
    • To import into an existing selected frame, you don’t have to do anything if Replace Selected Item is selected. The image automatically appears in that frame.
    • To replace an existing graphic, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click the loaded graphics icon on the graphic you want to replace.
    • To place all the specified pages of a multipage file (such as a PDF or INDD file) at the same time, one overlapping another, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click the loaded graphics icon where you want the pages to appear.

    Note:

    If you accidentally replace an existing graphic with an image you’re placing, press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS) to return the original image to the frame and display the loaded graphics icon.

  8. To place the next graphic or the next page of a multipagePDF, click the loaded graphics icon in the layout where desired.If necessary, you can scroll to a different location or change pageswithout losing the loaded graphics icon.

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The image you place may appear to have a low resolution,depending on your settings. The display setting of an image doesnot affect final output of the file. To change your image displaysettings, see Controlgraphics’ display performance.

Theoptions for importing graphics vary depending on the type of imagebeing imported. To display import options, make sure that Show ImportOptions is selected in the Place dialog box.

When you place an EPS graphic (or a file saved with Illustrator 8.0 or earlier) and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, you see a dialog box containing these options:

This option tells InDesign to read linksfrom OPI comments for images included (or nested) in the graphic.

Deselectthis option if you’re using a proxy-based workflow and plan to haveyour service providers perform the image replacement using theirOPI software. When this option is deselected, InDesign preservesthe OPI links but does not read them. When you print or export,the proxy and the links are passed on to the output file.

Selectthis option if you’re using a proxy-based workflow and you wantInDesign, instead of your service provider, to perform image replacementwhen you output the final file. When you select this option, theOPI links appear in the Links panel.

Also select this optionwhen you import EPS files containing OPI comments that are not partof a proxy-based workflow. For example, if you import an EPS file containingOPI comments for an omitted TIFF or bitmap image, you’ll want to selectthis option so that InDesign can access the TIFF information whenyou output the file.

Regardless of whether this option is selected, aplaced EPS file includes a clipping path in InDesign. However, deselectingthis option may result in a different bounding box size.

This creates a low-resolution bitmap representation of an image when drawing the file to the screen. The following settings control how the proxy is generated:

Some EPS images contain an embedded preview. Select this option to generate the proxy image of the existing preview. If a preview does not exist, the proxy is generated by rasterizing the EPS to an offscreen bitmap.

Select this option to ignore the embedded preview. This option is typically slower but provides the highest-quality results.

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When you import more than one single file into the same document, all instances share the proxy setting of the first instance of the imported file.

You can apply color-managementoptions to individual imported graphics when using color-managementtools with a document. You can also import a clipping path or analpha channel saved with an image created in Photoshop. Doing so letsyou directly select an image and modify its path without changingthe graphics frame.

When you place a PSD, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, or BMP file and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, you see a dialog box containing these options:

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If this option isn’t available, the image wasn’t saved witha clipping path, or the file format doesn’t support clipping paths.If the bitmap image doesn’t have a clipping path, you can createone in InDesign.

Select an alpha channel to import the area of the image saved asan alpha channel in Photoshop. InDesign usesthe alpha channel to create a transparent mask on the image. Thisoption is available only for images that contain at least one alphachannel.

Click the Color tab to view thefollowing options:


If Use Document Default is selected, leave this option unchanged. Otherwise,choose a color source profile that matches the gamut of the deviceor software used to create the graphic. This profile enables InDesignto properly translate its color to the gamut of the output device.

Choose a method for scaling the color range of the graphic to the color range of the output device. Typically, you choose Perceptual (Images) because it accurately represents colors in photographs. The Saturation (Graphics), Relative Colorimetric, and Absolute Colorimetric options are better for areas of solid color; they don’t reproduce photographs well. Rendering Intent options aren’t available for bitmap, grayscale, and index-color mode images.

When you place a PNG image and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, you see a dialog box with three sections of import settings. Two sections contain the same options available for other bitmap image formats. The other section, PNG Settings, contains the following settings:

This option is enabled by default when a PNG graphic includestransparency. If an imported PNG file contains transparency, the graphicinteracts only where the background is transparent.

If a PNG graphic does not contain a file-defined background color, this option is selected by default. However, it is only enabled if Use Transparency Information is activated. If this option is selected, white is used as the background color when applying transparency information.

If a PNG graphic was saved with a non-white background color,and Use Transparency Information is selected, this option is selectedby default. If you don’t want to use the default background color,click White Background to import the graphic with a white background,or deselect Use Transparency Information to import the graphic withoutany transparency (displaying areas of the graphic that are currentlytransparent). Some image-editing programs can’t specify a non-whitebackground color for PNG graphics.

Select this option to adjust the gamma (midtone) values ofa PNG graphic as you place it. This option lets you match imagegamma to the gamma of the device you will use to print or displaythe graphic (such as a low-resolution or non‑PostScript printeror computer monitor). Deselect this option to place the image withoutapplying any gamma correction. By default, this option is selectedif the PNG graphic was saved with a gamma value.

This option, available only if Apply Gamma Correction is selected,displays the gamma value that was saved with the graphic. To change thevalue, type a positive number from 0.01 to 3.0.

WhenPNG files are imported, the settings in the Image Import Optionsdialog box are always based on the selected file, not on the defaultor last-used settings.

The layout, graphics, and typography in a placed PDF are preserved. As with other placed graphics, you cannot edit a placed PDF page within InDesign. You can control the visibility of layers in a layered PDF. You can also place more than one page of a multipage PDF.

When you place a PDF that was saved with passwords, you are prompted to enter the required passwords. If the PDF file was saved with usage restrictions (for example, no editing or printing), but no passwords, you can place the file.

When you place a PDF (or a file saved with Illustrator 9.0 or later) and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, you see a dialog box containing the following options:

Preview a page in the PDF before you place it. If you’replacing a page from a PDF that contains multiple pages, click thearrows, or type a page number under the preview image to previewa specific page.

Specify the pages you want to place: the page displayed in the preview, all pages, or a range of pages. For Illustrator files, you can specify which artboard to place.

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If you specify multiple pages, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while placing the file to place them all at the same time, overlapping each other.

Specify how much of the PDF page to place:

Placesthe PDF page’s bounding box, or the minimum area that encloses theobjects on the page, including page marks. The Bounding Box (VisibleLayers Only) option uses the bounding box only of the visible layersof the PDF file. The Bounding Box (All Layers) option places thebounding box of the entire layer area of the PDF file, even if layersare hidden.

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Places the PDF only in the area defined by a rectangle thatthe author created as a placeable artwork (for example, clip art).

Places the PDF only in the area that is displayed or printedby Adobe Acrobat.

Identifies the place where the final produced page is physically cut in the production process, if trim marks are present.

Places only the area that represents where all page content should be clipped, if a bleed area is present. This information is useful if the page is being output in a production environment. The printed page may include page marks that fall outside the bleed area.

Places the area that represents the physical paper size ofthe original PDF document (for example, the dimensions of an A4sheet of paper), including page marks.

Select this option to reveal text or graphics that fall beneath the PDF page in the InDesign layout. Deselect this option to place the PDF page with an opaque white background.

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If you make the background transparent in a frame containing a PDF graphic, you can make it opaque later by adding a fill to the frame.

InDesign preserves the layout, graphics, and typography in a placed INDD file. However, the file is treated as an object, and you can’t edit it, although you can control the visibility of layers and choose which pages of a multi-page INDD file to import.

When you place an InDesign file and select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, you see a dialog box containing the following options:

Preview a page before you place it. You can type a page number orclick the arrows to preview a page in a multi-page document.

Specify the pages you want to place: the page displayed inthe preview, all pages, or a range of pages.

Specify how much of the page or pages to place, the pageitself or the bleed or slug areas on the pasteboard.

The Place command lets you import more thanone item at a time.


When you import Photoshop PSD files,layered PDFs, and INDD files, you can control the visibility oftop-level layers. Adjusting layer visibility in InDesign lets you vary an illustrationdepending on context. For example, in a multilanguage publication,you can create a single illustration that includes one text layerfor each language.

You can adjust layer visibility eitherwhen you place a file or by using the Object Layer Options dialogbox. In addition, if the Photoshop file contains layer comps, youcan display the desired comp.

After you place a Photoshop PSD or layeredPDF, an Illustrator AI file, or an InDesign INDD file, you can controlthe visibility of its layers by using the Object Layer Options dialogbox. If the Photoshop PSD file contains layer comps, you can choosewhich comp you want to display. In addition, you can choose whetherto maintain the visibility settings or match the settings of theoriginal file each time you update the link.

When you copy and paste or drag a graphic into an InDesign document, some attributes of the original object may be lost, depending on the limitations of the operating system and the range of data types the other application makes available for transfer, and the InDesign Clipboard preferences. Pasting or dragging Illustrator graphics lets you select and edit paths within the graphic.

Copying and pasting or dragging between two InDesign documents, or within a single document, however, preserves all of the graphics attributes that were imported or applied. For example, if you copy a graphic from one InDesign document and paste it into another, the new copy is an exact duplicate of the original, even including the original’s link information, so you can update the graphic when the file on disk changes.

When copying and pasting a graphic from anotherdocument into an InDesign document, InDesign does not create a linkto the graphic in the Links panel. The graphic may be convertedby the system clipboard during the transfer, so both image qualityand print quality may be lower in InDesign than in the graphic’s originalapplication.

The drag-and-drop method works like the Place command, with images appearing in the Links panel after they’re imported. You cannot set import options for the files you drag-and-drop; however, you can drag-and-drop multiple files at once (the files are loaded in the graphics icon when you drag-and-drop more than one).

Select a graphic from Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Bridge, Explorer (Windows), the Finder (Mac OS), or your desktop, and drag it into InDesign. The image must be in a format that InDesign can import.

After dragging a file from any location other than Illustrator, it appears in the Links panel in InDesign. Using the Links panel, you can control versions and update as necessary.

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In Windows, if you try to drag an item from an application that does not support drag-and-drop, the pointer displays the Prohibited icon.

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To cancel dragging a graphic, dropthe graphic onto any panel title bar or the document title bar.

Graphics you place in your document may appearpixelated or fuzzy or grainy. In most cases, it’s because InDesigndisplays images in low-resolution by default to improve performance.

To displaygraphics in high resolution, choose View > Display Performance> High Quality Display. For more details on changing these displayperformance settings, see Controlgraphics’ display performance.

The image may still be of low resolution even though you changed the display performance settings. For these images, make sure that you use the Place command to insert the image into InDesign. In some instances, pasting an image from another application may result in the preview image being inserted instead of the original file.

If your image appears in low resolution in print, check your print settings to make sure that graphics are printing properly. In the Graphics section of the Print dialog box, choose Send Data > All.

Avoid transformations in images of borderline quality

Inaddition, scaling or rotating an image could reduce its quality.You may want to choose Clear Transformations from the Control panelmenu.

In some cases,such as with an image copied from a web page, you may need to replacea low-resolution image with a high-resolution image.

Youcan control the resolution of graphics placed in your document.You can change the display settings for the entire document or forindividual graphics. You can also change a setting that either allowsor overrides the display settings for individual documents.

A document always opens using the default Display Performance preferences. You can change the display performance of a document while it is open, but the setting is not saved with the document.

If you’ve set the display performance of any images separately, you can override the settings so all objects use the same settings.

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To remove an object’s local display setting,choose Use View Setting in the Display Performance submenu. To removelocal display settings for all graphics in the document, selectClear Object-Level Display Settings in the View > DisplayPerformance submenu.

These options control how graphics aredisplayed on the screen, but they do not affect the print qualityor exported output.

Use Display Performance preferences toset the default option used to open all documents, and customizethe settings that define those options. Each display option hasseparate settings for displaying raster images, vector graphics,and transparencies.

Draws a raster image or vector graphic as a gray box (default).Use this option when you want to quickly page through spreads thathave lots of images or transparency effects.

Draws a low-resolution proxy image (default) appropriate for identifying and positioning an image or vector graphic. Typical is the default option and is the fastest way to display an identifiable image.

Draws a raster image or vector graphic at High Resolution (default). This option provides the highest quality but the slowest performance. Use this option when you want to fine-tune an image.

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Image display options don’t affect output resolution when exporting or printing images within a document. When printing to a PostScript device, exporting to XHTML, or exporting to EPS or PDF, the final image resolution depends on the output options you choose when you print or export the file.

The Display Performance preferences let youset the default display option, which InDesign usesfor every document. You can change a document’s display performanceusing the View menu, or change the setting for individual objectsusing the Object menu. For example, if you work on projects thatcontain numerous high-resolution photos (such as a catalog), youmay prefer to have all your documents open quickly. You can setthe default display option to Fast. When you want to see the imagesin more detail, you can switch the document view to Typical or HighQuality (leaving the preference set to Fast).

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You can alsochoose to view or override display settings applied to individual objects.If Preserve Object-Level Display Settings is selected, any settingsapplied to objects are saved with the document.

Each display option has separate settings for raster(bitmap) images, vector graphics, and transparency effects.

A contact sheet is a grid of thumbnail images,often used for pre-press analysis. You can use a number of differentAdobe applications to create a contact sheet. In Photoshop, youcan use either the Contact Sheet or Picture Package command.

In previous versions of Adobe Bridge (CS2 and CS3), you can createa contact sheet for InDesign pages using the Create InDesign ContactSheet feature. This feature does not appear in later versions ofAdobe Bridge. Instead, you can use the Adobe Output Module in AdobeBridge to create a PDF contact sheet.

You can also create a simple contact sheet in InDesign by placingmultiple images in a grid.

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Howyou import Illustrator graphics depends on how much editing thegraphics require after you import them. You can import Illustratorgraphics into InDesign in their native (.ai) format.

If you want to adjust layer visibility in InDesign..

Importthe graphic using the Place command, and when you want to edit it, chooseEdit > Edit Original to open the graphic in Illustrator.For example, for a multilanguage publication, you can create a singleillustration that includes one text layer for each language. Youcan transform the illustration as a single object in InDesign butyou cannot edit the paths, objects, or text within the illustration.


If you want to edit objects and paths in InDesign..

Copythe art from Illustrator and paste it into your InDesign document.For example, in a magazine, you might use the same design elementin each issue, but change its color every month. By pasting a graphicinto InDesign, you can change objects’ color, path, and transparencyusing the InDesign tools designed for that purpose.

Importing Illustrator graphics with multiple artboards

Illustrator CS4 graphics can include multiple artboards. When you import an Illustrator graphic with multiple artboards, you can use Import Options to specify which artboard, or “page,” is imported.

You can save an Illustrator graphic as a layeredPDF and control the visibility of layers in InDesign. Adjustinglayer visibility in InDesign lets you vary an illustration dependingon context. Rather than create multiple versions of the same illustration,say for a multilanguage publication, you can place the same illustrationwhere needed and adjust the visibility of the layers as appropriate.

You can transform a PDF as a single object (you can rotate orresize it, for example), but you cannot edit the paths, objects,or text within the illustration.

If you’re placing an Illustrator file that includes multipleartboards, you can specify which artboard is used, as when placingmultipage PDF files.

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Don’t place layers in nested layer sets if youwant to adjust layers in InDesign.

  1. In the Save As dialog box, type afilename and choose a location for the file.

  2. For Format, choose Adobe PDF (.pdf), and click Save.

  3. In the Adobe PDF Options dialog box, choose Acrobat 6 (1.5)or later for Compatibility.

  4. Select Create Acrobat Layers From Top-Level Layers, and clickSave PDF.

When you paste a graphic from Illustrator into an InDesign document, the artwork appears in InDesign as a grouped collection of editable objects. For example, if you paste an Illustrator drawing of a soccer ball with individually created patches into InDesign, the patches are pasted as a group, which can be ungrouped and edited using tools in InDesign. You cannot change the visibility of layers within the illustration.

Illustration of soccer ball in Illustrator (left) and sameillustration pasted into InDesign (right)

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Before pasting a graphic, make sure thatIllustrator is configured to copy as AICB (see Illustrator Help).In InDesign, make sure that Prefer PDF When Pasting isn’t selectedin the Clipboard Handling preferences. If these options aren’t set properly,the Illustrator graphic cannot be edited in InDesign.

Issues you may encounter when pasting or draggingart from Illustrator to InDesign

Illustrator supports the Grayscale, RGB, HSB, CMYK, and Web Safe RGB color models. InDesign supports LAB, CMYK, and RGB. When you paste or drag artwork from Illustrator into InDesign, RGB and CMYK colors convert in the expected color model. Grayscale colors are converted to the appropriate K value in a CMYK color in InDesign. HSB and Web Safe RGB objects are converted to RGB color in InDesign. Colors in smooth shades and gradients can be edited in InDesign.

Linear or radial gradients created in Illustrator can bemodified using the Gradient tool or Gradient panel in InDesign.Gradients with multiple spot colors or complex patterns may appearas non‑editable items in InDesign. If your illustration containscomplex gradients, import it using the Place command instead.

Transparency is flattened when Illustrator art is pastedor dragged into InDesign.

Illustrator Graphic Styles don’t become InDesign Object Styles whenart is pasted or dragged into InDesign.

Illustrator objects filled or stroked with patterns becomeembedded EPS images when pasted or dragged into InDesign.

If you drag text from Illustrator into InDesign, it’s convertedto outlines and isn’t editable with the Text tool. If you selecttext using the Text tool in Illustrator, and then copy it into atext frame in InDesign, the text loses its formatting but is editable.If you drag the text into InDesign without a frame selected, thetext loses all formatting and isn’t editable.

Whenyou paste text from Illustrator, the text is imported as one ormore objects that can be transformed and colorized in InDesign,but not edited. For example, if you create text on a path in Illustratorand paste it into InDesign, the text can be colorized, rotated,and scaled, but it cannot be edited using the Type tool. If youwant to edit the text, use the Type tool and paste it into a textframe.

Artwork copied from Illustrator and pasted into InDesignis embedded in the InDesign document. No link to the original Illustratorfile is created.

You can place graphics created in Adobe Photoshop directly into an InDesign layout.

You can adjust the visibility of the top-level layers in InDesign,as well as view different layer comps. Changing layer visibilityor layer comps in InDesign does not alter the original Photoshopfile.

If you save paths, masks, or alpha channels in a Photoshopfile, InDesign can use them to remove backgrounds, or to wrap text aroundgraphics. Graphics that contain paths, masks, or alpha channelsact as transparent objects when imported.

If you place a Photoshop image with an embedded ICC color management profile, InDesign reads the embedded profile, provided that color management is active. You can override the embedded profile for the image using the Import Options dialog box or assign a different color profile to the graphic in InDesign. Overriding the color profile in InDesign does not remove or alter the profile embedded in the Photoshop image.

Spot-color channels in Adobe Photoshop PSD or TIFF files appear in InDesign as spot colors in the Swatches panel. If the image uses a spot color that InDesign does not recognize, the spot color may appear gray in the InDesign document and print incorrectly as a composite. (The image prints correctly on color separations, however.) To simulate the graphic as a composite, you can create a spot color with the correct color values, and then alias the PSD color to this new spot color. The graphic then prints correctly as composite and display correctly onscreen when Overprint Previewis turned on (choose View > Overprint Preview). Be sure to remove the alias before printing separations, so that the image prints on the plate you expect.

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Using the Place command, you can specify which pages you want to import from a multipage PDF or an Illustrator file with multiple artboards. You can place a single page, a range of pages, or all pages. Multipage PDF files let designers combine illustrations for a publication into a single file.

The page range options appear when you select Show Import Options in the Place dialog box. See Acrobat (.pdf) and Illustrator (.ai) import options. The dialog box includes a preview, so you can view a thumbnail of the pages before you place them. If you place multiple pages, InDesign reloads the graphics icon with the next page, letting you place the pages one after the next. InDesign doesn’t import movies, sound, links, or buttons when you place a PDF file.

Comparing screen and device resolution in placedPDF pages

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A placed PDF page displays at the best resolution possible for the given scale and screen resolution. When printed on a PostScript output device, a placed PDF page always prints at the resolution of the device. When printed on a non-PostScript printer, a placed PDF page prints at the same resolution as the other InDesign objects in the document. For example, vector (drawn) objects print at the same resolution as other vector objects in the document. Bitmap images print at the best resolution supplied in the placed PDF.

A placed PDF page appears in the InDesign document as an onscreen preview, which is linked to a specific page in the original PDF. After placing a PDF page, you may break links by doing any of the following:

  • If you add a password to the original PDF that has been placedin an InDesign document, and you update the link, you’ll be promptedto enter the password.

  • If you delete pages in the original PDF and update the link,the placed PDF page changes to the page that now falls on the originallyplaced page number.

  • If you reorder the pages in the original PDF file and updatethe link, the placed PDF page may be different from what you expect.When that happens, place the page again.

InDesign preservescolors embedded in PDF pages, even if the color comes from a colorlibrary not installed with InDesign (such as the PANTONE Hexachrome® library). In addition,any color traps included in a placed PDF page are preserved.

Whencolor management is active, InDesign displays the placed PDF usingits embedded ICC or output intent profile (PDF/X only). When colormanagement is turned off, or when you place a PDF that doesn’t containan ICC or output intent profile, colors in the placed PDF are calibratedusing the color profile in the InDesign document.

When youexport or print the document, you can preserve the ICC profile embeddedin the placed PDF or replace it with the document profile instead. Outputintent profiles are used for display and are included when you exportas PDF/X; they aren’t used when you print the document, and theyaren’t included when you export to any other format.

Becausea placed PDF page is linked to the original PDF, the placed pagealso includes the security settings of the original file. If someonelater changes the security settings in the original file, the securitysettings are updated in the placed PDF page when you update thelinks.

If you correctly enter a required master password whenplacing a PDF page, you override any restrictions in the PDF page,enabling the placed PDF page to export as expected.

Using the Place command, you can import pagesfrom one InDesign document into another. You can import a page,a page range, or all of the pages in the document. The pages areimported as objects (much the same way that PDFs are imported).

Add pages in your document to hold the pages you want to import.After you choose File > Place and select an INDD file,you can choose Show Import Options and thenchoose which pages to import, which layers to make visible, andhow to crop the imported pages. You can scroll in the Preview windowto examine the thumbnail pages closely. The page or pages you selectare loaded in the graphics icon. If you place multiple pages, InDesign loads the graphics icon with thefollowing page so you can import pages one after the other.

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The Links panel lists the names of each page you imported.If a page you imported contains a graphic or other item that wasimported into it, this item is listed as well in the Links panel.The names of these secondary imported items are listed under a disclosuretriangle in the Links panel to distinguish them from imported pages.

InDesign supports a variety of graphics formats, including bitmap formats such as TIFF, GIF, JPEG, and BMP, and vector formats such as EPS. Other supported formats include DCS, PICT, WMF, EMF, PCX, PNG, and Scitex CT (.sct). You can import a SWF file as a movie file.

TIFF is a flexible bitmap image format supported by virtually all painting, image-editing, and page-layout applications. Also, virtually all desktop scanners can produce TIFF images.

The TIFF format supports CMYK, RGB, grayscale, Lab, indexed-color, and bitmap files with alpha and spot-color channels. You can select an alpha channel when you place a TIFF file. Spot-color channels appear in InDesign as spot colors in the Swatches panel.

You can use an image-editing program such as Photoshop to create a clipping path to create a transparent background for a TIFF image. InDesign supports clipping paths in TIFF images and recognizes encoded OPI comments.

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a standard for displaying graphics on the World Wide Web and other online services. Because it compresses image data without losing detail, its compression method is called lossless. Such compression works well with graphics that use a limited number of solid colors such as logos and charts; however, GIF cannot display more than 256 colors. For this reason, it is less effective for displaying photographs online (use JPEG instead) and is not recommended for commercial printing. If an imported GIF file contains transparency, the graphic interacts only where the background is transparent.

TheJoint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format is commonly usedto display photographs and other continuous-tone images in HTMLfiles over the web and in other online media. The JPEG format supportsCMYK, RGB, and grayscale color modes. Unlike GIF, JPEG retains allof the color information in an RGB image.

JPEG uses an adjustable, lossy compression schemethat effectively reduces file size by identifying and discardingextra data not essential to the display of the image. A higher levelof compression results in lower image quality; a lower level ofcompression results in better image quality, but a larger file size.In most cases, compressing an image using the Maximum quality optionproduces a result that is indistinguishable from the original. Openinga JPEG image automatically decompresses it.

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JPEG encoding, which can be performed on an EPS or DCS filein an image-editing application such as Photoshop, does not createa JPEG file. Instead, it compresses the file using the JPEG compressionscheme explained above.

JPEG works well for photographs, but solid-color JPEG images(images that contain large expanses of one color) tend to lose sharpness.InDesign recognizes and supports clipping paths in JPEG files createdin Photoshop. JPEG can be used for both online and commerciallyprinted documents; work with your prepress service provider to preserveJPEG quality in printing.

BMPis the standard Windows bitmap image format on DOS and Windows-compatiblecomputers. However, BMP does not support CMYK, and its color supportis limited to 1, 4, 8, or 24 bits. It is less than ideal for commerciallyprinted or online documents, and it is not supported by some webbrowsers. BMP graphics can provide acceptable quality when printedon low-resolution or non-PostScript printers.

The Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file format is used to transfer PostScript language artwork between applications, and is supported by most illustration and page-layout programs. Typically, EPS files represent single illustrations or tables that are placed into your layout, but an EPS file can also represent a complete page.

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Because they are based on the PostScript language, EPS files can contain text, vector, and bitmap graphics. Since PostScript cannot normally be displayed onscreen, InDesign creates a bitmap preview for an EPS file for onscreen display. InDesign recognizes clipping paths in Photoshop-created EPS files.

When you import an EPS file, any spot colors it contains are added to the Swatches panel in InDesign. EPS allows for prepress-quality resolution, precision, and color. This format includes all of the color and image data required to color-separate DCS images embedded in the EPS graphic. EPS isn’t ideal for online publishing in HTML, but it works well for online publishing in PDF.

EPS files can contain Open Prepress Interface (OPI) comments, which let you use fast, low‑resolution versions (proxies) of images for positioning on a page. For final output, either InDesign or your prepress service provider can automatically replace the proxies with high-resolution versions.

DesktopColor Separations (DCS), developed by Quark, is a version of the standardEPS format. The DCS 2.0 format supports multichannel CMYK files with multiplespot channels. (These spot channels appear as spot colors in the Swatchespanel in InDesign.) The DCS 1.0 format supports CMYK files without spotchannels. InDesign recognizes clipping paths in Photoshop-createdDCS 1.0 and DCS 2.0 files.

DCS files are intended to be used in a preseparated, host-basedworkflow. In most cases, color separations files associated witha DCS image are excluded when you export or print a composite toa PDF, EPS, or PostScript file. (The sole exception is made for8‑bit DCS files that were created in Photoshop and that do not contain vectorgraphics.)

InDesign can rebuild a composite image from DCS 2.0 or 1.0 separationsfiles, if the files were created in Photoshop. For best results,do not include DCS 1.0 files or DCS 2.0 files created in programsother than Photoshop when you are creating high-resolution colorcomposite proofs or separating a document in‑RIP or from a compositefile.

TheMacintosh PICT (or Picture) format is used for Mac OSgraphics and page-layout applications, and for transferring filesbetween applications. The PICT format compresses images that containlarge areas of solid color. InDesign can import PICT files createdfrom Mac OS screenshots and a variety of other applications,including clip art collections. However, PICT files are not recommendedfor high-resolution commercial printing.

InDesign supports RGB PICT images with variable resolutions andembedded QuickTime images. PICT graphics do not support color separations,are device-dependent, and are not recommended for high-resolutioncommercial printing. The PICT format can provide acceptable qualityonly when printed on low-resolution or non-PostScript printers.

Windows Metafile Format (.wmf)and Enhanced Metafile Format (.emf) files

Windows Metafile Format (WMF) and WindowsEnhanced Metafile Format (EMF) are native Windows formats used primarilyfor vector graphics, such as clip art, shared between Windows applications.Metafiles may contain raster image information; InDesign recognizesthe vector information and provides limited support for raster operations.Color support is limited to 16‑bit RGB, and neither format supportscolor separations. As a general rule, avoid using Metafile formats forcommercially printed documents.

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The PCX formatis commonly used in Windows systems. Most Windows software supportsversion 5 of the PCX format.

The PCX format supports RGB, indexed-color, grayscale, and bitmapcolor modes, as well as the RLE compression method, which is lossless.It does not support alpha channels. Images can have a bit depthof 1, 4, 8, or 24 bits. However, PCX is not ideal for commerciallyprinted or online documents. PCX graphics can provide acceptablequality only when printed on low-resolution or non-PostScript printers.

The PortableNetwork Graphics (PNG) format uses adjustable, lossless compressionto display 24‑bit photographs or solid-color images on the World WideWeb and in other online media. PNG was developed as a patent-freealternative to the GIF file format. It supports transparency inan alpha channel or a designated color. PNG is best used for onlinedocuments. Color PNG graphics placed in an InDesign document areRGB bitmap images.

The Scitex ContinuousTone (CT) format is used for high-end image processing on Scitexcomputers. Scitex CT files often come from Scitex scanners, which producehigh-quality scans for commercial printing. The Scitex CT format supportsCMYK, RGB, and grayscale files, but does not support alpha channels. ContactScitex to obtain utilities for transferring files saved in the ScitexCT format to a Scitex system.

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