Placing a multi-page PDF
It would be great if we were able to place a multipage PDF instead of each link clicking through the finder window to the same file and going through the PDF pages one at a time again and again to place them in a document.
yvonne harrison
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Hi Guys,
Not sure if these is some confusion to the question here or not but hopefully this clears it up if so....
Say i have a document already open and i am setting this document for print. I want to PLACE/LINK a Mulit-page PDF into my print document (not on about opening a multi-page PDF that's completely different). I would have to place the PDF i am after and choose which page i want i.e Pg 1, then in order to place the second page, go back to place, choose the same PDF and choose Pg 2 and so on and so on, this is just time consuming.
It should be like when you open a multi-page PDF it gives you option of what page, a range, or all pages.
To cover any other questions as to why i would need them to be linked...
1) So then i can go back to the original file if needed and do changes them rather than altering my print document, saving time and effort.
2) Makes my file quicker working when linked than original artworks.
Thanks.
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Anthony, can you record this behavior on video, so that a team can reproduce it at their side, please? A test PDF would be nice to have as well.
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Anthony Esau
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Like other commenters have said, you can open a multi-page PDF with Illustrator and then select the option to "Import PDF pages as links". Check out the attached screenshot of the dialogue showing this option. And then you can copy those linked pages to any other document.
However, there are two major bugs with this workflow.
1) The crop setting changes when pasted into another document. If the pages originally included bleed, the pasted linked will not have the bleed. Or if there is empty space around the contents of the page, the empty space will be cropped out.
2) The pasted object is scaled differently as well when the crop setting is changed.
These issues make this workflow nearly unusable for me.
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Well, so far we can import the range of PDF’s pages into a new document, as linked or embedded objects, and then drag-n-drop them into the document we want them to be placed in.
Two steps instead of one, but it works. Does it for you? -
Jason, yes you can open a Multi-page PDF as separate artboards that's fine I understand that, but that's not what I was trying to say. You cannot place a multi-page PDF in one go, you have to keep going back through the finder to the same file and relink the second page and then the third and so on. You should be able to choose a file and choose a selection of 1-5 pages and place them with each click.
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Jason Edmunds
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This exists on Mac, drag a multi-page PDF to the Illustrator dock icon. Not sure about Windows.
