InDesign CS3 importing PDFs

I have a 30 page pdf file which i need to place into InDesign.
Is there a quick way of adding this or do I have to make a single pdf file for each page and place each page into InDesign

There are scripts that can do exactly that -- for previous versions of ID, there were a lot of scripts, all with their own options & quirks.
Per CS3, I think the easiest way is:
* Select your PDF file with the Place dialog. Check "Show options" to ON (or keep the Shift key down while pressing "Open").
* The first page of the PDF will appear in the Import options dialog. To the right of this, you can select which page you want to import. Default is "Current page"; you can also enter a range (in the form "3-5"), or choose "All pages". This last one is the one for you.
* Be sure to set the Crop To option to what you want it to be. If you need to place full pages, simple choose "Media", so they are placed in their original size and position.
* Press Okay. The cursor will change to a "Loaded" gun. Now all you have to do is click once per document page to place the next page from the PDF. Click rather near the top left of each page, if close enough ID will snap the image to the correct position. If the images should appear somewhere else on the page, draw guidelines on your Master Page and enable "Snap to Guides".
* Repeat until you run out of pages.

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