Expert: Pat Bensky - 4/30/2011

Question
QUESTION: Hello,
i am working with indesign cs5, just made my document with data merge. This document contains 65000 pages. The size of a page is 1/4 a4. I need to put 8 pages in a single a3 page,and the same thing with the others. How to do this, help. I tried imposiotion software but no luck. I tried bussines card script but it only place one page and copy that. Can you help me with some script, or plu in or software. Thank you

ANSWER: Hello,
Well it sounds like imposition software is what you need - which one did you use, and what was wrong with the result? Were the pages in the wrong order?

Another way to do it would be to create an A3 document and, on the master page, place 8 text boxes. Link those text boxes in the order that you need to have the pages positioned - ie, in the order that the imposition software should place them. Then import your data into that document and it should create the pages in the required order.

I hope that makes sense - let me know if you need a more detailed explanation.

Pat

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QUESTION: The problem is that every single pdf page is different with others. I need to place them lets say, in the first page of indesign 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 pages and the other page of indesign 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 pages so in the others.
I just want to have some good software or script
thank you

Answer
Hi,

Sorry but I guess I still don't understand :)

" in the first page of indesign 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 pages and the other page of indesign 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 pages"

On the first A3 page you will have pages "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8"  1-8 of your original document (each page = 1/4 A4) - correct?
Then on the next A3 page you will have pages 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 of your original document - correct?
Then on Page 3 you would have pages 17 - 24, and so on. Correct?

So I don't understand why you can't just create an A3 document, INSTEAD of an A4 document, with 16 linked text boxes, and flow all the data through the document like that.

You say that every PDF page is different. Does this mean that the pages are all in a different order? In what way are they different?

Kind regards,

Pat