Choose the page or pages, or, if you wish, choose an entire document that you wish to place.

Select Show Import Options, and then choose the PDF file.

To make the process work correctly, your PDF must not be password protected. Note that InDesign will remove any links, audio or video embedded in a PDF. InDesign’s older versions required you to use a plugin to open PDF files. You can now import them and use the Place command to add them to a design. You can either place the entire PDF in an InDesign file, or just a few pages.

Yet, although InDesign is an Adobe product, and while Adobe created the PDF format in the nineties, it wasn’t until recently that they included native support for them in InDesign. While graphic designers will probably have used plugins or other tricks to get it to work, this recent development makes it possible to use PDFs in InDesign directly. InDesign is used by graphic designers, artists, publishers, and marketing professionals all over the world. They use this software program to create flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, posters, business cards, postcards, and many other types of documents for any number of organizations.

Karolin Koestler, Senior Marketing Manager EMEA.

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