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just had a thought there, in the house just now so can't check it out. can you name pages in indesign? cause that would help me out rather than renaming about 100 pdfs manually.

edit: mac os x.3.5 and cs btw

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Post Edited (foggynotion) : 2/21/2005 7:53:50 PM GMT

[uncle carbunkle]

yes you can. i don't have id on this machine, but it's in one of the 1st four sections at the top of the program interface... ha! hope that helped, but i doubt it.

set up some page # boxes on some master pages. then you can choose where the numbering starts, (ie. #1, or #354), roman numerals, a b c, etc etc.

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uncle carbunkle said...
yes you can. i don't have id on this machine, but it's in one of the 1st four sections at the top of the program interface... ha! hope that helped, but i doubt it.

set up some page # boxes on some master pages. then you can choose where the numbering starts, (ie. #1, or #354), roman numerals, a b c, etc etc.just looking for confirmation cheers, if it's there i'll find it tomorrow in work, another thing tho can you tell ID when exporting pdf's to do them individually? i've not found how to do that yet. do i need an extension?

to explain a bit further, i'm currently using quark for this just now, looking to get most of it moved over to indesign, i still need some things in open format for send to centre's that haven't switched yet but i should be able to convert most of it, just took over this position from somebody else and they hadn't bothered coverting to ID, i'm exporting individual postscripts in quark(using an xtention, can't mind what) then taking it thru distiller to get the pdf's individual(i need them like that) then renaming them manually, i was thinking since ID exports pdf's i could name the page export the pdf's and be done with it, any suggestions?

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Post Edited (foggynotion) : 2/21/2005 8:33:15 PM GMT

[uncle carbunkle]

if you mean export the pages as individual pdfs - it's one of the options when making a pdf. you can choose the page range and name the pdf whatever you like. you'll get to work tomorrow and call yourself a knob for even asking the question! it's pretty straight forward.

but, if you do have any more questions after you've called yourself a knob, just post 'em.

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uncle carbunkle said...
if you mean export the pages as individual pdfs - it's one of the options when making a pdf. you can choose the page range and name the pdf whatever you like. you'll get to work tomorrow and call yourself a knob for even asking the question! it's pretty straight forward.

but, if you do have any more questions after you've called yourself a knob, just post 'em.

;)hahahaha aye no doubt! cheers

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uncle carbunkle said...
if you mean export the pages as individual pdfs - it's one of the options when making a pdf. you can choose the page range and name the pdf whatever you like. you'll get to work tomorrow and call yourself a knob for even asking the question! it's pretty straight forward.

but, if you do have any more questions after you've called yourself a knob, just post 'em.

;)i'm calling you a knob this morning btw! /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/biggrin.gif that's not what i'm after at all, i need the pages as individual files not within the one pdf file, i need about 100 different pdf's with different names, one page per pdf.

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[uncle carbunkle]

that's what i said! knob! ;)

but i don't know how to automate that. you can export/print individual pdfs from a multipage id document, but i don't know how to create every page as it's own pdf in one fell swoop. call someone else a knob and see if they know!

no, best not ask another knob. ask a smart person. [insert bad fake italian accent] 'iya knowa nothing!'

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[Broacher]

One way to do this in one fell stumble, is to open the whole PDF in Acrobat, and so a 'SaveAs' to EPS with 'All Pages' selected. This automatically generates a separate EPS file for each page (you want to be sure and include fonts, etc.) to a target directory.

Then open Acrobat, and open (or drag from a file window) all the EPS files in. They'll get converted to individual PDFs (based on the default Distiller settings you have).

Not elegant, but a little quicker than exporting each one as it's own PDF directly from ID.

Post Edited (Broacher) : 2/22/2005 7:11:20 PM GMT

[D-Zine]

I do mine individually but thats because I send about 15 per upload so that the prepress department can work, while I'm working and they aren't waiting on my files. Our turnaround time is very fast. But making the PDFs individually doesn't seem to take that long. I do anywhere from 64-72 every wednesday. They are all individually named too, but I do that when I make the postscript file, so I don't have to go back and do it later. Then again..I'm using Quark, so I'll just shut my pie hole /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif

LOL!!

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cheers for the input i've another 2/3 weeks before i get my next batch of copy in and start converting to indesign, surley there must be a way of automating this, stil plenty time at the moment i'll keep hunting a solution, anymore idea's are appriciated.

cheers

ps why did they not put actions into indesign, that would rock!

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[Broacher]

I forgot about this one: watched folders. Just set up a folder for your final PDF pages and tell Distiller that it's a watched folder and set it up. That way, you just have to Export your ID file as EPS pages to the 'in' subdirectory and keep on working as Distiller creates the individual PDF versions as it goes. You can even tell Distiller to delete the EPSs for you as it works through them.

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Broacher said...
I forgot about this one: watched folders. Just set up a folder for your final PDF pages and tell Distiller that it's a watched folder and set it up. That way, you just have to Export your ID file as EPS pages to the 'in' subdirectory and keep on working as Distiller creates the individual PDF versions as it goes. You can even tell Distiller to delete the EPSs for you as it works through them.cheers, i actually noticed this yesterday, i just asumed ID was the same as quark and could only export 1 eps at a time without extentions/plugins, i'll defo be taking this route, tho it looks as if i'll be stuck manually renaming the numbered files. (aw well not that big a hassle, i only need to open the pdf's copy and paste the header(basically what the files need to be called) into the file name, infact is there any way to automate that process with applescript or something by tagging a box in an ID master page?

ps yes i probably am being lazy! /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/biggrin.gif

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Post Edited (foggynotion) : 2/25/2005 8:17:22 PM GMT