Import pdf to InDesign?

I have a book I wrote that I am very close to finishing for print. I only need to justify the paragraphs. How do I import the file to InDesign and format the paragraphs? Please help.

Your subject line says "Import pdf to InDesign", but you say this is a book you wrote. You don't create files as PDF, you export existing files to PDF, so the book must have originated in another program. What program is that?
You also didn’t say what version of InDesign you have or what OS you are using. ALWAYS provide this information first. We can’t help you if we don’t know what you are using.

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Importing PDF into Indesign

Is it possible to import PDf documents into the current version of Adobe Indesign ? I am currently testing the software and was wondering if it would be possible to import around 50 of my already published PDF docs to work on it and redesign it with Indesign ?
Thank you in advance.

Hi @plummerdesign and @MasterStudios - indeed, it is a crying shame our website does not work in IE and they are looking into this. Thank you. We do not have a demo for several reasons and can understand your point. We do have numerous forms of detailed video demsontrations on PDF to InDesign via PDF2DTP here and we have some awesome testiominals from graphic arts industry experts, Frank Romano, Michael Jahn, Joe Marin and more (click on the hyper links on their names to view what they say about PDF2DTP).
One of many customer quotes we have include this:
"Really pleased to have this product [PDF2DTP for InDesign]. The Beta version was really good and saved me loads of hassle with amends to pdfs."
Graham Bell - http://www.absolutegraphics.co.uk
Another quote is:
“We have a lot of PDFs from „Word“ ;-) Before PDF2DTP, we used PitStop for the corrections, now we can do it better! As a recent example, we had come in an advert in PDF for a meeting. The ad was in RGB, Fonts not included, the trim and bleed were not correct, etc. I open it with the PDF2DTP plugin and it works very nice. A little bit of touching-up work on the pictures and the colours, but not much… Thanks for the app!”
Dirk Rosenplänter
Blueprint Werbeagentur e.K.
Hopefully this helps you see how useful and yet still affordable PDF2DTP for InDesign is. It is truly a gem, especially when all you have left is the said PDF! Thank you for the feedback and we will strive to better that side of it, for sure.

IBookAuthor supports importing PDF and indesign files?

Hi everyone!
There is any possibities to import a PDF or Indesign application in the iBookAuthor to re-edit and we add interactivity widget. Also we can get the Actual view as per the source.
Thanks,
Muzammil

Not directly, no, sorry.
iBA allows 'Insert' of WORD or Pages Chapters.
Other content would require text copy from the source and paste into an existing iBA template with rework as required for matching original layouts.

Import PDF into InDesign

Brand New InDesign User (latest version on OS X)
We have layout modifications to do on some marketing material that is being sent to us in PDF form. I know InDesign can import the PDFs but it seems that the type and image layers are not available. It's very tedious to go into Acrobat (we have Acrobat Standard on Windows) and save out all the images, cut and paste the text, check the fonts, re-lay out in InDesign.
Surely such a sophisticated layout program made by Adobe should be able to access the type layers in a PDF directly?
Colin

Bob,
Thanks for the quick reply. I may have spoken loosely about 'layers'. The PDF documents have text, embedded fonts and images at least. The original documents are not available (lost) and the PDFs were probably created from InDesign or some similar layout program.
Thanks for the plugin link, it looks good but another $249 on top of the ID full price we just paid...
The placed PDF looks like a graphic in ID and yet it has all this good information in it, text, fonts, images. Hard to believe it wouldn't be available.
Colin

Help with importing PDF to Indesign CS5 trial version

Hello: I am in a bit of a quandry. I have numerous PDF's that I want to convert to Epub. I called Adobe and asked them what program I would need to do this and they said InDesign CS5 so I downloaded the trial version to check it out. The problem is, that in the trial version there is no "place" command, which is how I would import the PDF. So I am left unable to run a test with this software and don't want to buy a program that I can't confirm. Any ideas or work arounds would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Krista

The trial version of InDesign certainly does not have any features disabled. You should be able to place pages from a PDF file into an InDesign document.
File=>Place or Ctrl-D should yield a file dialog for you to select a file to place. Of course, you must already have opened an existing file or created a new file.
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Problem importing PDF to InDesign

I'm creating a document that uses snippets from a PDF file. When I import those PDF pieces (after cropping in Acrobat) into InDesign there is a lot of degradation. The snippets are all type, although they include a Hebrew font. The odd thing is, when they're imported into a Word document, they look better than in InDesign. Are there any techniques that will retain the highest resolution of the PDF?
Thanks for any help.
Fred

I would not crop them before placing them in InDesign, I would use them at whole. I would avoid editing those file after finishing them.

Importing PDF to InDesign

I am doing a book and i am wanting to import a document that I have both saved to doc and PDF. Is there anyway I can bring this into InDesign to extend to the pages that I have made?

This is the place where plugin programmers discuss technical issues.
Please repost in the general InDesign forum.

Converting File to CYMK/ Importing PDF to Indesign

Hi, i have a deadline approaching to create a brochure. I have been using illustrator to create my page designs using a combination of photography and vector work and was wondering if i select everything within the document and convert to cymk wether this has indeed converted everthing including the Photos. I was also wondering is it best to save my files as PDF's before importing into Indesign to reduce file size or will the quality be better if an ai. file? It is a 200 page brochure and i am the sole designer as an intern at a travel company :/ I have done some research on the matter and believe what i am doing is ok yet i have a deadline approaching and some reassurance would be greatly appreciated!

Nick,
if i select everything within the document and convert to cymk wether this has indeed converted everthing including the Photos.
In addition to what Tony said, on another day you may start in CMYK Color Mode, especially if you use colours beyond grayscale in the vector artwork; if you do, you may have some unexpected colour changes when you change the colour mode.
And Illy leaves photos (and their colours) alone, unless you coerce her to do something both of you may regret.

Error import pdf with indesign

Bonjour,
Je fais des pdf avec un logiciel de dessin (Topsolid 7.8) + PDF creator.
Ensuite j'essaye de les importer sur Indesign pour faire un montage de documentation.
Certain pdf s'ouvre et d'autre non.
J'aimerais bien connaitre la différence entre les deux fichiers.
Ce qui fait que l'un fonctionne et l' autre non.
A qui puis je envoyer mes deux fichiers pdf pour qu'ils soit analysé ?
Bien cordialement

Je suis assez d'accord avec vous. C'est pourquoi je me suis tourné chez topsolid en premier.
Mais la on stagne un peu dans nos recherche sur le problème et on aurait besoin d'indices supplémentaires.
Voici un lien de téléchargement avec un fichier qui s'ouvre et un autre qui ne s'ouvre pas avec indesign :
Téléchargerhttps://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/e448a84698d671bf1affc9f6bee298ac20140626114756/d6208f 0bb69bc7a13113a654397b5bbb20140626114756/03d814
Mervd

Very long wait and weird font with PDF in indesign

Hi,
when i try to import PDF in InDesign, it takes a long time before loading it up, and when i finally get to place it, the most part of the fonts are replace by dots.
Its also takes a lot of times when i try to export my .indd in PDF file.
I tried the same operation with the same files on others computers and everything works fine, so i guess the problem is with my Indesign. I try to reinstall it but it did not change nothing.
Thank you for your help!

Amazing how
reinstalling an application seems to be the knee-jerk reaction of so many when something goes wrong ...
Most likely, the problem relates to either an improperly created or defective PDF file in which one or more fonts are not embedded or properly embedded
and have oddball encodings and/or are using non-Western Latin characters that cannot be substituted via the standard substitution fonts.
- Dov

How to import pdf with hyperlink and and maintain its hyperlink while exporting it as HTML?

We can import pdf in indesign either using plaacemultiplefile script or using place submenu under file menu but both of them import pdf as graphic object and lost its all hyperlink. no doubt when i again export its as pdf than hyperlink are there as it is but when i export it as HTML,IDML or other format than than all hyperlink are lost so is there any way to maintain this if no than is there any way to write some new script utilities which will do the same .one solution i think is first convert pdf into docx and than import it as docx indesign import it as text frame and maintain all hyperlink but in this process pdf file lost its some formating while converting it into docx .

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Is it possible, and if so, how do you color certain aspects of an inported PDF in InDesign?

Is it possible, and if so, how do you color certain aspects of an imported PDF in inDesign?

I appreciate it Steve! Yes, there is a television program, or use to be!
The one we had way back when, was a Chyron unit; and you could take a gray
scale drawing of a person from any source, including shooting a picture
with the studio camera, then color each item of clothing, on the person,
individually!
Thanks again!
John Ryan

I get a unwanted correction (cmyk-lab) in spotcolors when I import a PDF in Indesign or Illustrator. How do I turn of this correction?

Hello, I hope someone can help me with this issue:

Hi Rob,
I make big format prints for customers. So I get many PDF files from my customers. Each customer gets his files from all over the world; I cannot explain the hole world how to deliver PDF files.
I try to do as less as possible to correct PDF files. So how can I setup Indesign, so spotcolors from imported PDF files are untouched?
TXS! grz Paul

How do I import a .PDF into inDesign?

How do I import a .PDF into inDesign? Does anybody know how? I need to edit a book in inDesign that is a .PDF. So if anyone know how to do that please tell me.

Bob, Peter, grmg, many thanks for your very helpful comments. Delighted mac/pc not relevant. Will scratch that from list of herrings to chase.
Re PDFs - actually, I'm working in Acrobat (not just a finalized PDF), and Acrobat does of course allow editing of a sort; I'd concluded that since Adobe is willing to tolerate that degree of editing with its product, it should therefore tolerate moving its native format (*.pdf) into another of its own native formats (*.indd). I see that's a misconception.
This morning I tried all flavors I could find of getting my Acrobatted content into ID3, including copy/paste, place, and import (from the ID side); none was satisfactory. Output from Acrobat to Word and then placing Word was fine for English but destroyed the Greek - not just wrong font, but complete gobbledygook and loss of all diacriticals. Names of fonts don't matter for my purposes; the legibility of the English, and the legibility and tonic accuracy of the Greek do matter. Author of this project is not tech-savvy and is using old Greek system as well; nothing he or i can do to fix that.
Current plan is to request author to provide me his native files, which will be Mac files. Am I understanding the Import dialog and your collecitve comments to suggest that with that file resident on my PC (and unopened), I can use the Place dialog, with "Show Options" selected, to get the Mac file into ID?
Chapeaux to those of you with constructive comments - hugely appreciated.
YC

Make Data Merge import certain page of pdf or indesign document

I don't know if it is possible but can you make Data Merge import certain page of pdf or indesign document, this would be great addition for indesign

Here are a couple of questions that might help understand what might need to be done to achieve your request:
* How do you propose to identify the desired page(s) within a PDF and an ID document, so the merge field placeholder knows how to find it?
* How do you propose to keep track of the page if they're re-ordered in an updated document?
* What if the identification marker is within text and flows to a different page - would you want to retrieve the original page (before the reflow) or the new page to which the marker would have flowed?
Perhaps the scripters could comment on the possibility of scripting these.
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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I don't know if it is possible but can you make Data Merge import certain page of pdf or indesign document, this would be great addition for indesign

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