Export PDFs as Separate and Custom Naming
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September 2, 2015 at 3:35 am #77801Christopher CampbellMember
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!
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September 2, 2015 at 5:59 am #77802David BlatnerKeymaster
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.) -
September 2, 2015 at 6:52 am #77804Christopher CampbellMember
Perfect!
Again, thank you very much David!
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September 3, 2015 at 7:46 am #77859Eugene TysonMember
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.
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September 3, 2015 at 7:59 am #77861Christopher CampbellMember
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.
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September 4, 2015 at 2:24 am #77879Eugene TysonMember
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.
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September 4, 2015 at 7:37 am #77886Colin FlashmanParticipant
*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). -
September 4, 2015 at 7:49 am #77887Christopher CampbellMember
Sent :)
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September 4, 2015 at 9:10 pm #77892Colin FlashmanParticipant
Haven’t seen your email, but can show you the script working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sem6ODINvo
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April 22, 2020 at 11:46 am #1239944Murat InceMember
Is this script free to use download and use? It looks amazing.
Thanks
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April 22, 2020 at 2:36 pm #1240083David BlatnerKeymaster
@Murat: I think you can find it here: https://colecandoo.com/2019/11/30/data-merge-to-single-records-pro-now-available/
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