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For example if I have a business card design done in InDesign and now I need to provide print ready PDF for printers containing multiple copies of the business card. How would you do that? Are there any specific tools?

Andriusa
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InDesign doesn't do imposition (placing of pages on one output page in a particular order). You have to buy/find a tool, a plugin. Like croptima dot com. Or on this page, there's some interesting stuff: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?l=6&s=5&o=desc&exc=19&cat=223&event=producthome

Alternatively do it by hand, or use a pdf imposition tool. Succes!

C.A. Vuyk
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Do an export to PDF ( with any marks you need ). Get the file path. Open a text file and type in :

file
/myFile.pdf
/myFile.pdf
/myFile.pdf
/myFile.pdf
/myFile.pdf
/myFile.pdf
/myFile.pdf
…

Once that done. Go to Indesign, set a box that will host the pdf and run a data merge. You will get your imposition quite freely ;)

Loic

Loic Aigon
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  • that looks promising. I don't know much about InDesign, but I created a frame and done data merge, but what I am getting is now multiple frames with the PDF file path text but not the actual PDF graphi. What I am missing? – Andriusa Jul 06 '12 at 15:04
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My bad, you need to specify that you are placing images files with a trailing arobase :

@pdfs
"/myFile.pdf"
"/myFile.pdf"
"/myFile.pdf"
…

And specify the absolute path to the file.

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How many cards do you need to layout ? If few, you could just flow the indd file into another document and duplicate boxes.

I didn't test but maybe you could draw a grid and point for the indesign file. Best scenario, if grid is selected, the file is flowed in every frame.

Loic

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