Arcadia Paste Files

The Paste Files command is an alternative of the Place command of Adobe® InDesign®. With Paste Files you can specify the files to be placed just by copying them to the Clipboard in Finder - you neither need to use the standard Open dialog, nor have to deal with drag and drop from Finder - just choose Copy in Finder, and then choose Paste Files in Adobe® InDesign®.

Paste Files handles all the files in the Clipboard - it's not limited to a single file as the built-in Place command.

The Paste Files command behaves differently, depending on whether there is only one file in Clipboard or more files.

Single File - precise placing

To place a file into an Adobe® InDesign® document, choose Edit > Copy in Finder, switch to the Adobe® InDesign® document and choose Plug-ins > Arcadia > Paste Files. The file will be loaded to the place gun, so you can place the file by dragging (specifying item bounds) or clicking (specifying the top left corner of the item) - same way as for the built-in Place command.

Multiple Files

To place a number of files into the document, copy them to the Clipboard in Finder, select a page in the document, and then choose Plug-ins > Arcadia > Paste Files. The files will be immediately placed and arranged from the top left corner of the page - same way as if they were dragged from Finder.