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Appending only checked each batch against the cap, and a single image or a PDF added with append wasn't checked at all, so repeated appends could grow the cursor without limit. Refused before decoding a batch or adding an asset.
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Multiple images
Choose File > Place (Cmd+D on macOS) and select several images, or drop a selection of images from your file manager onto the document. Multiple images load into a placement cursor in the order supplied by the file picker (or the drop). The cursor shows the next image's thumbnail and, beside it, how many are loaded ("(6)").
- Click to place the next image at its natural size.
- Drag to draw its frame: it keeps the image's proportions, and shows the scale beside the pointer.
- Click an existing graphic frame to replace its contents.
- While drawing, Right/Left add/remove columns and Up/Down add/remove rows. Release to place a grid in row order with 6-point gutters. Extra images remain in the cursor; unused grid cells create no empty frames. A drag too small for the grid's cells shows and places one frame instead, as an ordinary drag does.
- Press Escape or select another tool to cancel the remaining placement.
- Switching to, opening or closing a document also cancels it, and goes back to the Selection tool.
A single selected file retains the normal Place behavior, including filling a selected frame and PDF import options. A multi-page PDF in a batch stops the batch at its import options; once confirmed, it queues after the images loaded before it. The place cursor holds up to 1000 images, counting those already in it when a batch adds to them. Rows and columns each range from 1 to 100. A batch containing an unreadable image fails without replacing the existing queue or changing the document. An invalid grid area also leaves the document and queue unchanged.
Dropping files
- One image dropped on an empty or graphic frame fills it, or replaces the image in it.
- One image dropped anywhere else loads into the place cursor, as File > Place does with nothing selected: the next click or drag places it.
- Several images dropped together load into the place cursor in the order they came, wherever they are dropped.
- Images dropped while the cursor already holds some queue after them.
- DesignCraft, IDML and InDesign documents open; text files (.txt, .docx, .rtf, .md) and spreadsheets go into a new frame where they are dropped; a PDF is placed where it is dropped (or fills the frame under it); swatch exchange (.ase) files load their swatches.
Images here are PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, BMP, TIFF, SVG, PSD and EPS files.
Automation
All placement behavior is available through the engine, CLI, control channel and MCP:
{"command":"place.load","params":{"files":[{"path":"/images/one.png"},{"path":"/images/two.jpg"}]}}
{"command":"place.load","params":{"files":[{"path":"/images/three.png"}],"append":true}}
{"command":"place.grid","params":{"rect":[36,36,576,756],"columns":3,"rows":4,"gutter":6}}
{"command":"place.cancel","params":{}}
Each source can instead supply base64 and name, including on the web. append queues the images after those already loaded instead of replacing them. place.grid consumes only the images that fit. Undo removes placed frames together, while the cursor remains at its current position in the queue. The UI command app.placeDialog takes paths for a File > Place of several files without the dialog.