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Chuck Uebele
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November 26, 2021
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Which program: text to formatted PDF

  • November 26, 2021
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I've got several thousand images, in various folders, for which I want to create a formatted PDF of the file names and some metadata of each file. I have a script for creating a text file with all the info that I need, but I want to know how to convert the text file so that I can use the folder names as headlines or some sort of divide for the indivdual files. I can create an XML rather than a text file of the data, if that would work better, but which program do I import the info into: ID?

 

Here is an example of the info that I'm pulling from the images: File name, Description and Title (Date of origian image). So I would also get the parent folder name of 0098, which I want to use at sub titles and fomate that larger and bolder than each files' descriptions.

 

0098-02: Daughters of Andrew Burns Parsons: Jane (Parsons) Bonnifield, Nancy (Parsons) Hansford, Columbia "Lummie" (Parsons) Gordon Vannoy, Laura (Parsons) Sullivan Evans. - Circa 1915

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    Correct answer Chuck Uebele

    After a bit more research,  I guess ID is the way to go. I'm rewriting my script to export all the names and metadata into XML, which I can then import and then tag the paragraph styles in ID.

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    Chuck Uebele
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    November 29, 2021

    After a bit more research,  I guess ID is the way to go. I'm rewriting my script to export all the names and metadata into XML, which I can then import and then tag the paragraph styles in ID.

    Nancy OShea
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    November 26, 2021

    I don't know if this will help you or not.

    https://tinyapps.org/blog/200909110700_print_photos_with_date_taken.html

    Fast Stone Image Viewer can print Exif data

    https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Chuck Uebele
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    November 26, 2021

    Thanks, Nancy, but I'm not really looking for that. Just want to be able to take the info that I get from the metadata and file names to make a PDF list of all the images for reference.