Place spread PDFs into InDesign

Clhoose to Place spread PDFs Into InDesign from either the CircularFLO Tools menu > PDF Tools or MasterPlan LIVE menu or MasterPlan LIVE Tools panel to import one or more PDFs into InDesign.

For multi page PDFs (more than one page together in one PDF file) each spread of the PDF is placed into a spread in InDesign.

Without a document open, imported PDFs are placed into a newly generated document. Two facing pages are added for each of the PDF spreads. This means the page count and numbering can be matched to the artwork in InDesign and used within Circular Software.

The PDF trim box is measured and the PDFs are placed at spread size. This means that existing marketing PDFs that have been created as spreads can still be used and only the trim page artwork is used in InDesign and with Circular Software.

If a PDF trim box is not present then the entire page size is used or a smaller spread size can be manually entered.

Text from placed PDFs is retrieved and can be viewed and edited in the InDesign Script Label panel. Show the Script Label  panel using InDesign Window menu > Utilities > Script Label.

When a document is already open, this same button or command will offer to add chosen PDFs into the existing document giving the option to add to a new layer on-top of existing pages or to add to newly created pages ans the end of the document.

An alternative tool to place page PDFs is also available.