Export PDFs as Separate and Custom Naming

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    • #77801

      Hi there,

      I have a document that I update on a monthly basis. This is generated from a Data merge and is usually about 40 pages.

      I have to manually export the pages as a High Quality PDF to my desktop, then open Acrobat and extract each page as individual files. This then saves 40 PDFs to my desktop. I then have to rename each PDF to the name that represents each page. For example Page 1 was England. Page 2 was America. Page 3 was Canada.

      Is there any way I can get Indesign to extract each page as individual PDFs (I know there is for this part using a script) AND get it to autoname those pdfs to a word that features in that indesign document, such as England, America, Canada.

      This would help me save quite a lot of time!

      Thanks
      Chris

    • #77802
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I don’t think you can have it all, but this will get you close… one of my favorite data merge techniques, explained by Colin Flashman: https://creativepro.com/data-merging-individual-records-separate-pdfs.php
      (Colin also wrote a great feature/cover article about data merge in InDesign Magazine a while back.)

    • #77804

      Perfect!

      Again, thank you very much David!

    • #77859
      Eugene Tyson
      Member

      https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html

      This is a script that runs in InDesign, a recent feature was added – export pages as separate pdfs.

      It’s quite nifty.

    • #77861

      Thanks Eugene, I already use the above script, however it does not allow for the file name of the PDFs to be named after a word within the said document.

    • #77879
      Eugene Tyson
      Member

      This might work https://creativepro.com/data-merging-individual-records-separate-pdfs.php

      It’s basically adding that word as a bookmark in InDesign

      Then use Acrobat Split Document facility to split by bookmark.

    • #77886
      Colin Flashman
      Participant

      *AHEM*
      I can go one better now. I’ve written a script that will do this all in one hit. I’m beta-testing it at the moment, so if anyone would like a time-limited trial, private message me through the adobe forums (my user handle is cdflash – has an avatar of a silhouetted man with his hands in the air).

    • #77887

      Sent :)

    • #77892
      Colin Flashman
      Participant

      Haven’t seen your email, but can show you the script working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sem6ODINvo

    • #1239944
      Murat Ince
      Member

      Is this script free to use download and use? It looks amazing.

      Thanks

    • #1240083
      David Blatner
      Keymaster
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