Split a document by style

Alberto Gutierrez

Tagged: Split A Document By Style

This topic has 11 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 2 months ago by Colleen Shannon.

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- September 22, 2014 at 2:23 am #70691
  
  Alberto Gutierrez
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  Searching deeply in the forum i didn’t find a solution for an old problem: how to split a document into parts based on a paragraph style. The case is a book with a lot of parts and chapters. Due to the fact that InDesign cannot re-numerate footnotes when exporting to epub, i need to split those chapters into individual documents and build the book based on those files. Is there any script to do so?
  
  Thanks in advance.
- September 22, 2014 at 3:45 am #70692
  
  Colin Flashman
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  Try the script mentioned by Uwe Laubender in this Adobe Forum: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1014766 (11th comment in).
  
  The script is written by Hans Haesler and is in German, but I believe it will do what you want.
  
  Colin
- September 22, 2014 at 7:46 am #70696
  
  Eugene Tyson
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  Painstakingly, I’ve don this before.
  
  Export the entire file to IDML
  
  Open the IDML file – it opens as Untitled
  
  Remove all information except for chapter 1
  
  Rinse and repeat for the other chapters/sections etc.
  
  It honestly doesn’t take that long – but then again, a script is faster lol
- September 23, 2014 at 1:27 am #70704
  
  Alberto Gutierrez
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  Thanks for the link Colin, I’m going to give it a try ;-)
- April 3, 2016 at 10:21 pm #83677
  
  Michael Zaichenko
  Member
  
  Hey, I have a script that does just that and way more actually. If interested, let me know and I’ll send it to you.
- April 3, 2016 at 10:52 pm #83678
  
  Gert Verrept
  Member
  
  @michael: Everything that can split documents is interesting. just send it to [email protected]
- October 10, 2016 at 9:25 am #88949
  
  Ken Cotnam
  Member
  
  hey, Michael Z! I would be very interested to see your script that splits ID docs based on paragraph styles.
  thanks, Ken
  [email protected]
- January 13, 2017 at 10:47 am #91246
  
  Bill Buchanan
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  Hello Michael, I have this same problem. I must split numerous separate chapter files into individual scene files, multiple scenes per chapter, based on the style SceneStart. Would you send a copy of your script to: [email protected] and thank you. Bill B.
- January 13, 2017 at 4:05 pm #91249
  
  Michael Zaichenko
  Member
  
  Hello all,
  
  I hope I was able to send it to everyone. If not, please let me know.
  
  Michael
- October 2, 2017 at 1:10 pm #98506
  
  Thiago Ribeiro Nogueira
  Member
  
  Please Michael, sendo to me too:
  
  [email protected]
  
  Thank you!
- January 21, 2019 at 12:09 am #113771
  
  Prasanth V
  Member
  
  Hi Michael, send to me too:
  
  [email protected]
  
  Thanks
- January 22, 2019 at 11:36 am #113795
  
  Colleen Shannon
  Member
  
  Also: Save InDesign as Separate Pages:
  
  Save InDesign Document as Separate Pages
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