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Rename pages

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August 22, 2023
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I thought this latest version allowed us the option to rename pages??

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Correct answer rob day

If you want them to be considered, post feature requests here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

I think generally speaking if a script or third party plugin can solve the problem a feature will not get added.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

An ugly work-around would be to build a non-printing layer and put some big text on it naming the page. This could be shown or hidden, and it would not print.

Mike Witherell

Todd_MorganAuthor

Legend

MY work mainly deals with various social media sizes, so having this ability in ID, would be great!

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

Whatever functionality Adobe will do - will always be limited - mainly because it needs to be as universal as possible - so only basic functionality.

Custom script is much better solution.

And depends on your workflow - you can get much more than you ever dreamed of...

Colin Flashman

Community Expert

Unfortunately, no.

I think there's confusion here with the added feature "File name suffix in JPEG and PNG exports" which is described as:
Add suffixes like incremental numbers, page number, and page size while exporting to JPEG or PNG formats. You can distinguish and easily filter the same file saved in different sizes for different platforms or stakeholders based on the suffixes.

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

Todd_MorganAuthor

Legend

No confusion, just an ask to have this in the next update. What you are describing is not within the scope of this thread.

rob day

Correct answer

Community Expert

If you want them to be considered, post feature requests here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

I think generally speaking if a script or third party plugin can solve the problem a feature will not get added.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

You probably also know that Illustrator has name-able artboards. Great for assets.

Mike Witherell

Todd_MorganAuthor

Legend

Yup. But client requested final files in InD... so there's that.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

If you just need a way to rename finall INDD files - or exported PDFs / PNGs / JPEGs - then it is easily scriptable.

You just need to describe how / where script can find info for the FileName.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Alternate Layouts can have custom names. Otherwise, pages only are numbered.

Mike Witherell

Todd_MorganAuthor

Legend

Thank you - know this already.

G

GPGW

Known Participant

Yes, I was hoping this would be resolved by now too.

When Adobe gave us the ability to resize pages within spreads they should have given us the ability to rename those pages as well, without having to make new sections. Would come in handy when creating social media assests i.e. banners for Facebook, LinkedIn, Insta etc. from within one document.

*edit - spelling

Steve Werner

Community Expert

You might consider using the Page Attributes > Color Label to provide a way of indicating special kinds of pages. The command is available from the Pages panel menu: