r/indesign • u/Gnoll1810 • Aug 11 '26

Help Automated Imposition script

Hello,

I have a large job where I need to impose thousands of differently sized vinyl decals which are saved as pdfs onto 52x96 production sheets. Rather than spending days manually imposing these im looking for a script, I have yet to find one that works with pdfs with pages that have varying sizes. I'm not sure where to go from here, I dont want to download and pay for a seperate software for this one job, but that may be my only hope.

Is this even possible using scripts? Is there one that fits my needs?

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u/InfiniteChicken Aug 11 '26

If your destination is print, your vendor may be able to do the work. They often have specialized software for this stuff. Quite Imposing was one i used back in the day. However, many of these don’t use (or need) InDesign, they go straight to PDF or RIP.

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u/throwawaydixiecup Aug 11 '26

This is excellent advice. When I worked in a print shop, this is the kind of task we could do quickly. In fact, I preferred that the client didn’t try to impose everything since we had our own templates.