Cách import file PDF vào InDesign

While InDesign doesn’t support editable PDFs, you can import imagery from this format using the Place Command. You’re then able to use all the functions available in InDesign to edit and add to your document.

To add a PDF image in InDesign, follow these steps:

1. Create an InDesign document.
2. Match the dimensions and number of pages to the PDF you’re importing.
3. Go to the File menu, and click Place.
4. In the Place dialog window, check the Show Import Options box.
5. Double-click on the PDF you wish to import.
6. Check your preferences in the Place PDF dialog window, and click OK.
7. Click on the InDesign document to place the image.
8. If you’re importing multiple pages, click on each.

These are the basic steps to follow when you add a PDF into an InDesign document. Watch our video tutorial to explore more of the options and preferences you can use as you import your PDF.

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How to import a PDF into InDesign

Whilst InDesign doesn’t support directly opening an editable PDF file, you are able to import the graphic into the document by using the “Place” command. Here’s how.

Firstly, create your InDesign document to the dimensions of the PDF you’re importing. You can check this by opening your document in Adobe Acrobat and pressing Ctrl / Cmd D. This will open up the document properties, and we can see in the Advanced section what the page size is.

We can then go back to InDesign and create the document to this size. If you’re importing the whole document, you’ll need to make sure that you’ve created enough pages within the document.

To start the process, go to File, then click Place. When the Place File dialog window is open, quickly check the “Show Import Options”. There are a few options you can change here, for example cropping options and the pages you’d like to import. There’s also a layers tab, but usually PDFs are flattened so yours may not appear here.

Just a quick reminder, it’s easiest to import without having to resize if you’ve matched the InDesign document to the exact dimensions of the PDF.

Click OK, then click on the document to place the image. If you’ve imported multiple pages, you’ll need to click on the different pages to place these slides. Otherwise, you can resize the images or make any additions to the document. Importing is done!

Unfortunately, the footnote ends there, so there's not much in the way of detail about what these restrictions are or how long they'd remain in effect in a potential post-acquisition world. Given COD's continued non-appearance on Game Pass, you've got to imagine the restrictions are fairly significant if they're not an outright block on COD coming to the service. Either way, the simple fact that Microsoft is apparently willing to maintain any restrictions on its own ability to put first-party games on Game Pass is rather remarkable, given that making Game Pass more appealing is one of the reasons for its acquisition spree.

The irony of Sony making deals like this one while fretting about COD's future on PlayStation probably isn't lost on Microsoft's lawyers, which is no doubt part of why they brought it up to the CMA. While it's absolutely reasonable to worry about a world in which more and more properties are concentrated in the hands of singular, giant megacorps, it does look a bit odd if you're complaining about losing access to games while stopping them from joining competing services.

Microsoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority [CMA], and come up with an interesting statistic.

In response to continued questions over whether Microsoft owning Call of Duty would unfairly hobble PlayStation, Microsoft claimed that every COD player on PlayStation could move over to Xbox, and Sony's playerbase would still remain "significantly larger" than its own.

Microsoft does not go into detail on its mental arithmetic here, but does note elswhere in its comments that PlayStation currently has a console install base of 150 million, compared to Xbox's install base of 63.7 million.

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That claim is part of a range of comments given to Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz in response to the CMA's latest report, which otherwise mostly repeats many of the same concerns raised by the UK regulator - and others around the world - already.

For those following the case, the CMA's latest intervention will not come as a surprise - it is the next step on the regulator's recent roadmap for how and when it will weigh in with its final ruling. This month, we were due the CMA's October "issues statement" - and it seems that this is the document to which Microsoft has now publicly responded.

The usual topics are covered - surrounding the potential for the deal to harm competitors should Microsoft gain too much of an advantage owning Activision Blizzard franchises [mainly, Call of Duty] and therefore being able to leverage their brand power to become a dominant market leader in the console market and cloud streaming.

Specifically, the CMA sees potential for the deal to harm Sony but also other streaming services such as Google [perhaps a moot point now], Amazon and Nvidia.

"Having full control over this powerful catalogue, especially in light of Microsoft's already strong position in gaming consoles, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure, could result in Microsoft harming consumers by impairing Sony's – Microsoft's closest gaming rival – ability to compete," the CMA wrote, "as well as that of other existing rivals and potential new entrants who could otherwise bring healthy competition through innovative multi-game subscriptions and cloud gaming services."

In response, Microsoft said such "unsupported theories of harm" were not enough to even warrant the CMA's current Phase 2 investigation - which was triggered on 1st September.

"The suggestion that the incumbent market leader, with clear and enduring market power, could be foreclosed by the third largest provider as a result of losing access to one title is not credible," Microsoft told GamesIndustry.biz.

"While Sony may not welcome increased competition, it has the ability to adapt and compete. Gamers will ultimately benefit from this increased competition and choice.

"Should any consumers decide to switch from a gaming platform that does not give them a choice as to how to pay for new games [PlayStation] to one that does [Xbox], then that is the sort of consumer switching behavior that the CMA should consider welfare enhancing and indeed encourage. It is not something that the CMA should be trying to prevent."

The CMA is due to notify Microsoft of its provisional findings in January 2023, at which point it can seek possible remedies to any sticking points raised. The regulator's final report - and overall ruling - will then be published no later than 1st March next year.

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