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The issue...
Although the text can be viewed as a PDF, it needs to be indexed by a 3rd-party without InDesign or the fonts. Ideally, they would be able to work from the PDF searching for words and phrases using the search feature and then noting the page number.
By @A2D2
This, from your opening post, would suggest, that your indexing people would do index manually - copy phrase and add page number?
Or are you looking for a way to use InDesign's built in mechanism - where text from the index is linked with the occurence in the text?
Yes, that's right, as you said it: the text exported from InDesign needs to be searchable e.g. for manual indexing (I am not looking to use InDesign's indexing feature)
By @A2D2
Then I really don't see a problem 🙂
You can have, for example, a Table in WORD, with all texts from each page as a seprate cell in a Table - with info about the page.
Here is an example - it exports Tables but can export anything:
So if there is a story that flows across multiple pages, IDT can still copy the text page by page? How is that specified. Do you need to break the threads between the text frames first?
By @A2D2
IDT can do anything 😉
IDT won't do anything to your text in the InDesign document - as we only want to EXTRACT information - so IDT will select each TextFrame and export its contents - either with or WITHOUT formatting.
If you'll have multiple TextFrames from multiple Stories running together on pages - it's just a case of sorting and/or extracing additional information about the Parent Story that particular TF belongs to - so your indexers will know which parts of the text are from the same Story.
Or applying different colors to different Stories. Or pasting them to separate cells withing the destination Table. Etc. Whatever you prefer.
Or each Story can be exported separately for clarity - separate WORD documents.
Think of it as you would do it manually:
1) go to page,
2) select contents of the TextFrame,
3) CTRL+C,
4) switch to a destination where you want to have this text copied to - 2nd document in InDesign, WORD/Excel application opened together on your computer,
5) CTRL+V - of course this step will require adding extra information - page number, extra info about the Story, so text won't get mixed-up,
6) go to step 1) untill you get to the end of the Story - or Pages.
And that's how IDT works - it just replicates manual steps you would do.
In IDT, what is the pathway for "select contents of the TextFrame"
When all text frames from a document are loaded and then checked in IDT, how do you select contents of the TextFrame. I only see select paragraphs
By @A2D2
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I looked at the YouTube video you linked above. I understand the 6 steps and the idea that IDT just works through the manual steps taken by the user.
In IDT I can see how to load and select the required text frames.
However, what is the pathway for "select contents of the TextFrame"
When you run Task in the BatchMode - ID-Tasker will automatically select object from the list - which makes the object from the list "ready for processing".
If you want to select contents - you need to add rule / command to your Task:
MISC / MODIFY CURRENT SELECTION / OBJECT - TEXT CONTENTS
The "modus operandi" of ID-Tasker is quite simple - every rule / command expects something to be selected in InDesign - unless rule will select something or do something unrelated to InDesign.
How to you switch to another the document to paste the contents of the clipboard?
In this case, you just need to select "destination" object - TextFrame for the texts you want to collect - and execute another Task, with only one Rule, before you run BatchMode with your "main" Task - and the rule is:
OBJECT / REMEMBER CURRENTLY SELECT OBJECT
This will "remember" internally this object and whenever you execute rule:
OBJECT / SELECT LAST SAVED OBJECT
ID-Tasker will select this object - no matter if it's in the same document or another document - exactly the same way as if you would click CTRL+TAB on your keyboard to switch between documents.
How do you switch back to the InDesign document?
As above - ID-Tasker will do the switching automatically - will select next object on the list for processing - and switch to the correct document.
How do you loop a routine and then tell IDT to stop?
When you run Task in BatchMode - ID-Tasker processes objects on the list from the first-to-last or from the last-to-first - sometimes order of processing is very important - you just need to select / check elements on the list for processing - either select manually or by using another "pre-processing" Task - everything in ID-Tasker - sorting & filtering, switching between lists, adding new columns/object properties, etc. - can also be automated.
BatchMode is kind of "double click on the item on the list (TYPE column) to select it in InDesign" and "click Play to execute Task" - repeated on every selected & visible item on the list.
The main goal of ID-Tasker is to minimise mundane clicking - wheter it's in InDesign or ID-Tasker itself.
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