Indesign Q [again]
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- craigatkinson
Once a document, 12 spreads for example is layed out, is there a way of making another spread showing thumbnails of the existing spreads? To be used as contents / index.
- Yolo0
export pages as eps and bring em in
- bring em in yo!jadrian_uk
- what about a drop?23kon
- you can place ID pages into ID, no need for an epsmonospaced
- craigatkinson0
there's no 'auto' feature then?
- fadein110
why do you need that automated - it would take an hour tops.
- automated would take a minutecraigatkinson
- Not even an hour surelyJimbo82
- 5 minutes yepfadein11
- Yolo0
export pages, make new page, make box for thumb, import 1st spread, size to box, dupe box 12 times, import other pages into boxes.. 1 minute of AW
- monospaced0
Start drawing one box for thumb, but before unclicking, use arrow keys to turn box into a grid of boxes for each thumb. Then simply select all of the images and click each of the boxes. Much easier. Works on other features too.
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Screen grab each spread in indesign in preview mode using CMD-SHFT-4. Then place those grabs into boxes for thumbnails. 4mins tops!
+1's here please >>>
- ESKEMA0
similar to what mono said, but without needing to draw the boxes first.
1— Place ( + D) and select all the thumbs, previously prepared by exporting document to whatever format suits you best.
2 — Start dragging the place tool and without releasing the mouse, click left and down arrow to create your grid.
3 — Release mouse.
4 — Optional: Select all placed items and adjust fitting options. (or better yet, have an object style prepared already)
- Ianbolton0
Just make your whole document in Photoshop. It's much easier. You can then add beveled edges to absolutey everything.
- ali0
About 1-2 mins:
Export as print PDF
Open PDF in Acrobat and print as PDF
- Set page scaling to: Multiple pages per sheet
- Set Pages per sheet to 'custom' 3 by 4 or what ever you require
- Print - save as PDF
- Drop file into into Indesign
- lajj0
Ha! I'm glad I clicked that thread, didnt knew these tricks !
thanks indesign nerds.