Place PDFs into InDesign

This article covers single page PDFs. An alternative tool to place PDFs in spreads is also available.

Creating a new document

Choose CircularFLO Tools menu > PDF Tools or GreenLight Create menu > Place PDFs Into InDesign to import one or more PDFs into InDesign.

For either multi page PDFs (pages together in one document) or a folder of single page PDFs, each page of the PDF will be placed into a newly created page in InDesign.

Without a document open, imported PDFs are placed into a newly generated document.

The PDF trim box is measured and the PDFs are placed at trim page size. This means that existing print production PDFs with bleed and trim marks 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 trim page size can be manually entered.

NB: PDFs are added to a FLO_PDF layer which is used by CircularFLO to retrieve PDF text for search.

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

Adding to an existing document

When a placing additonal PDFs into an existing document (with the existing FLO_PDF layer) there are two further options to choose from:

Same pages, new layer‍

This add the PDFs to a new layer on-top of existing pagese.g. when recombining Co-Edition text on top of base artwork

New pages, same layer

This adds the PDFs to newly created pages at the end of the documente.g. to combine separate chapters into a single document