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Steve Kelly
Steve Kelly
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March 14, 2018
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Export to separate pages PDF with prefix

  • March 14, 2018
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Hi Wonder if anyone can help me with a page numbering question on exporting to pdf. I see in the latest version indesign CC18 that we can now export to separate page pdfs which i thought would be great, but it only seems to add page numbers as a suffix.

Is there any way to do this with the page number as a prefix in a 3 digit format?

I want to achieve the following

001_myfilename.pdf

002_myfilename.pdf

etc

Ive included the screenshot of where i am currently looking

Many thanks

Steve

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Correct answer JonathanArias

Hi Bob,

Thanks for that, yep im aware I can do it outside of Indesign, ill just leave it as a request for an option in any further release.

My experience, with two of the biggest web printers in both the UK and US and working on 100+ page magazines for over 20 years is that I am always requested for separate files, especially when I am soft proofing on Kodak and Agfa pre-press systems. Smaller documents, I agree, but never my experience on web and and 100 + docs.

Thanks for the input though


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JonathanArias
JonathanArias
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March 14, 2018

you could do this from acrobat, see attached. go to organized pages, split, and in that dialog option you get several options as how you can slit and call each file.

    Steve Kelly
    Steve KellyAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 14, 2018

    Hi Johnathan, thanks for the advice. Yep, i could also do it with 'better rename' app, but i was hoping to do it in indesign. Adobe have gone to the effort of adding this feature, but i imagine one of its main uses would be for people supplying press ready pdf files which most printers need with the page number at the front. Maybe they'll add it for the next version

    Thanks again

    JamT2000
    JamT2000
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    August 24, 2022

    Hi Bob,

    Thanks for that, yep im aware I can do it outside of Indesign, ill just leave it as a request for an option in any further release.

    My experience, with two of the biggest web printers in both the UK and US and working on 100+ page magazines for over 20 years is that I am always requested for separate files, especially when I am soft proofing on Kodak and Agfa pre-press systems. Smaller documents, I agree, but never my experience on web and and 100 + docs.

    Thanks for the input though


    I've been wondering about this too. As we supply pdfs to printers too and they always want separated files. We actually use our editorial management system to rename the files for us to a prescribed format per magazine title. Fingers crossed for a prefix option, although it's still not in 2021...

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