Placing a PDF in InDesign CS5

Hello,
I am new to these forums and new to forums as a whole. I have a question about InDesign CS5. I recently upgraded from CS3 to CS5. In InDesign CS3 when I placed a PDF file (or other Adobe file for that matter) once I selected a crop option if I then placed another PDF (or other Adobe file) the Place command remembered my last crop selection and made that the first option. I find that when I place PDFs now in CS5 that I have to select my crop option every time. The default seems to be Bounding Box (visible layers only), and no matter how many times I select another crop option, say media, and then place the item, I always have to reselect the crop option to media when I again place another PDF. Is there and option for changing this default? Or is there a way of turning on a option that will cause InDesign CS5 to remember my last crop selection under the Place command? If so, how do I do it? It would save my lots of time if I could figure this out.
Thank you.
CB

Stix wrote:
Welcome to the forum Charles, I hope your first experience is a positive one.
I've had exactly this problem, which was solved in a forum on Indesign Secrets, another great Indesign resource. The thread is here, but let me know if you have any problems implementing the scripts in it. I've adapted them and made my own list so for example I can easily just click on one to place page 7 of a PDF to it's trim box, which not only means you don't have to have "show options" ticked when placing but if you drag and drop (which is often a lot quicker) you get what you want to.
Thank you Stix, for the welcome and the information as well.
I believe I have a working understanding of how to edit and place scripts in InDesign. (Now that is scary!) Now I have a new challenge; related to my original challenge. The PDFs that I am placing are not just single page PDFs; some of them can be 50 - 100 pages. That being said, one of my favorite things to do is to take a existing InDesign file, where I have already placed and sized the PDFs, rename it and then go in and select the previously placed PDF and replace it with page xxx; all throughout the document. Perhaps I am doing something wrong with the script information because I do not see away for me to choose the page I want without using the "show import options*. Using this option of course kicks out the script I have selected; does it not? Is there a option in one of example scripts that would help me with this?
CB

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1. So, I have a PDF article which is 8.5" x 11". It mainly contains text.
2. I want to place this one page PDF in InDesign but it keeps taking out the white space around the text. Meaning it only takes the area that has text on it so it actually comes out as smaller than 8.5" x 11".
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topic you mentioned. I have no patience in going through and reading
through all the list of results. That's why I like going through FORUM. I
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graphics" link to get my answer in PDF. But that's just me.
Bernice de Guzman-Wilson
CDG Marcom, Bio-Rad Laboratories
510.741.4670
Bob Bringhurst - Adobe <[email protected]>
06/19/2009 11:02 PM
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Placing a PDF in InDesign
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topic.

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