InDesign Place Multiple Graphics in a grid

I really like new feature of placing multiple graphics all at once into a grid, simply by holding the Command+Shift. This seems to be limited to only working when multiple files have been chosen in the Place dialog and loaded into the Place cursor. It would be really beneficial for this grid ability to be extended to instances when a single file that contains multiple pages is chosen (ex:multi-page InDesign document or PDF). Each page is loaded into the Place cursor as if they were separate graphics to be placed, just the grid keyboard command doesn't work since only a single file was chosen from the Place command.

That's a great idea. Post it on the official form: Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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Place multiple graphics in numerical order

Hi all,
I am having a problem with the order in which indesign inserts placed multiple images (graphics).
I have a folder of images labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.....and so on. Say I select the first 30 images in bridge (or in the finder) and drag them to indesign and pull out a grid for 10 images. All flows in fine, but the order becomes not quite numerical.
For example the order I see the images now placed down in is:
1, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 3, 30, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
I can't imagine this is expected functionality really and am hopeful that there may be an easy solution without having to do something like number all the images 001, 002, 003, 004 etc. etc. as this would take longer than simply placing down each image into a grid one by one! (I realise i can batch rename in various programs including bridge, but this probably won't help me as my numbering sometimes skips a few numbers (ie 1,2,3,7,8,10,13,17...) and therefore auto (batch) renumbering sequentially would actually break my numbering which need to remain unchanged)
I hope this explanation makes sense and please let me know if i've left any detail that may help define the problem further.
I am using a Mac + CS5 InDesign (& CS5 Bridge).
ps. just tested it on CS4 and found the same issue also.
Thanks.

It has been remarked (and commented upon) before.
That's because the Adobe programmers didn't really expect someone to actually use numbers to organize their files ... If you look at your list of files, you will see that the order is alphabetical instead -- '1' comes before '10' comes before '11' comes before '2'.
The Low-tech solution is to rename all files with a single digit to one with two digits -- add a '0' in front of '1' to '9', and you'll be allright.
(The High-tech solution is for Adobe to re-write their file sorting. For chrissakes, nowadays even Windows sorts files correctly!)

[Disappeared Post] Place multiple graphics in numerical order

(Am I going crazy, or is Jive having a nervous breakdown AGAIN? I'm pretty sure -- well, fairly sure -- I just answered to a thread with this title!!)
This Javascript will rename all files that start with one or more digits within a selected folder, adding the proper number of leading zeroes, and thus nicely circumvent InDesign's programmers' incapability to properly sort files on importing and placing.
(Copy, paste into the ESTK Editor, and save as "AddLeadingZeroes.jsx" in your User Scripts folder. Run by double-clicking and selecting a folder. A No Guarantees, Inc., guaranteed Jongware Script. Use With Care, No Undo!)
//DESCRIPTION:Add Leading Zeroes to File Names
A Jongware Script, 14-Feb-2011
var folderLoc = Folder.selectDialog("Select Folder to rename in");
if (folderLoc)
folderContents = folderLoc.getFiles("*.*");
maxNum = 0;
for (l=0; l<folderContents.length; l++)
if (folderContents[l] instanceof Folder)
   continue;
if (folderContents[l].name.match(/^\d/))
   n = folderContents[l].name.match(/^\d+/)[0].length;
   if (n > maxNum)
    maxNum = n;
if (maxNum)
var failList = [];
var successList = [];
for (l=0; l<folderContents.length; l++)
   if (folderContents[l] instanceof Folder)
    continue;
   if (folderContents[l].name.match(/^\d/))
    n = folderContents[l].name.match(/^\d+/)[0].length;
    if (n < maxNum)
     if (folderContents[l].rename ("000000000000".substring(0,maxNum-n)+folderContents[l].name))
      successList.push (folderContents[l].name);
     else
      failList.push (folderContents[l].name);
if (failList.length)
   alert ("Warning!\rRenaming failed on:\r"+failList.join("\r"));
alert ("Renamed to:\r"+successList.join("\r"));
RIP Gary Moore 1952-2011

... That 2nd line is of vital importance ...
The Description line is to show a nice helpful pop-up when you hover the mouse above this script in the Scripts panel -- particularly useful if you have some (wait, I'm gonna count mine) 140 scripts with, erm, "helpful names" like 'alignwords2.js' or 'balance.js' or (indeed) 'test.jsx'.
The second line, however, is important when this script suddenly stops working! It contains the important information of who made it (me) and when (today). If I ever update or amend the script, you might want to know what version you are using!
Commenting out a line, by the way, is extremely easy. Just as in the first line, all you have to do is place two slashes // at the start of any line, and it will no longer be part of the action. Also, good for you! for finding out all you had to do was to remove that 2nd line to get it to work! I dunno what went wrong, it's correct over here in my local copy. Let's blaim Jive again, shall we.

Place multiple InDesign document pages (ImportedPages)

Hello,
I need a way to place multiple pages from an InDesign document in much the same way as the sample PlaceMulitpagePDF.jsx does but with InDesign documents rather than PDFs.
The following is the critical line where the PDF page number to import is set:
app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber = myCounter;
What is the equivalent command for setting the InDesign document page number when choosing a page to import?
I have tried using:
Application.ImportedPageAttribute.pageNumber
but without result.
TIA

Why, thank you Mr. Schneider!
I am embarassed to say that my problem was a couple of typos, (reading the Zanelli script made that obvious to me). The command should have been:
app.importedPageAttributes.pageNumber
Note the lowercase "i" on "imported" and the "s" after "Attribute."
Your help is very much appreciated!

I am using a code based typesetting program (not WYSISYG) that outputs PDFs. I am producing 100 plus pages that have multiple graphics on each page. I need to know how to format a PDF command that I can incllude in my programming that will tag my graphics

I am using a code based typesetting program (not WYSISYG) that outputs PDFs. I am producing 100 plus pages that have multiple graphics on each page. I need to know how to format a PDF command that I can incllude in my programming that will tag my graphics with "Alternative Text".
I know that with a Microsoft product graphics can be tagged before a PDF is made. I need to know how to do this with my programming.

The Acrobat SDK might be a starting point.
From there, perhaps a plug-in (built with C+).
Perhaps with a licensed release of a PDF Library (this could be $$).
The viable and cost effective alternative is use the tried and true.
Authoring in an appropriate authoring application with appropriate tag management.
Example: Adobe InDesign; Adobe FrameMaker or MS Word with PDFMaker (comes with install of Acrobat).
This way you place "Alternative Text" when mastering content in the authoring file.
Going the route and with some look-see (research) you may find programmatic approaches to placing the alt txt in the authoring file.
Note: as discussed in the Matterhorn Protocols there is no programmatic method that provides a fully accessible PDF (specifically, that is an ISO 14289-1, PDF/UA-1 compliant PDF).
Regardless, here you have a sub-forum for discussions on Acrobat usage.
Consequently discussions on/of 3rd party software is rather out of scope eh.
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Hi. This might be hard to understand but... On a Mac (OSX 10.5.5) when placing multiple graphics at once in InDesign CS3, is there a way to have the graphics loaded/placed in the same alpha-numeric order that they show up in an open folder window (sorted by name) in the Finder? They are in correct order in the finder window with the absolute value of the file number taken into account instead of the number of decimal places (for instance 8000 comes before 12000) but they seem to load up in the placement cursor by referencing the first digit instead. I know this has been how it's always worked, but Apple has fixed the dilemma. Is Adobe just behind in this idea? Is there a better way for me besides renaming all the files or placing them one by one? I just tried changing the links palette to "Sort by name" but they go into old school computer alpha-numeric order based on the first number unfortunately. Any ideas would be much appreciated!
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Makes me long for the good old days of OS 9 where everything worked right.

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