Great people: please come and study how to avoid duplicate catalog extraction

[dublove]

Last time I found catalog duplicates being extracted.
The main reason for this was that some of the tables themselves did not span a page, they were only on one page, but the “Skip Header Rows” was used.

In this case the table of contents at the back was wrong.

If there are very few tables, I can remove the “Skip Header Rows” for those tables that do not span pages.
However, there are a lot of tables that need “Skip Header Rows” at the beginning, and after the client rewrites them, these tables do not need this feature because there are a lot of them, and it is difficult to recognize the cancellation.

In short, if there are hundreds of tables, you will go crazy, the catalog is all wrong.
Please research if there is a simple and workable solution for this.

Thanks

[dublove]

Hasn't anyone?

Such a big bug.

not brought it to the attention of Adobe officials?

[Frans v.d. Geest]

This is not Adobe, this is users helping other users. That said: do you have a Paragraph style that you applied that is part of the table (so it is in a row, a cell) that you added to the list to auto generate?

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

You file has some corruption. Save it as IDML and reopen. The dupe TOC items do not appear.

A few notes...

1. Not quite sure understand what you are asking about the skip table headers. You appear to be using the feature correctly (applying the Cell style to the first body row to make it look like a header). Don't worry about applying the setting to tables that don't span but use the first body row cell style consistantly for later updates. 
2. Your paragraph style settings are not done well. I did not check your other style settings.
3.  "Asian" should be "Asia" to match the other phrasing.

[dublove]

Hi Dave Creamer of IDEAS

I've updated the file.
I also just found out that saving IDML separately and then opening it to extract the directory seems to work.

However, I'm at work and I have over 300 forms and I'm finding that the duplicate problem still occurs once.

Also, saving as IDML separately, is only a temporary method, not a permanent solution, because each time there is a risk of destroying the structure of the ID file.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

>>I also just found out that saving IDML separately and then opening it to extract the directory seems to work.

Isn't that what I posted? 

What features are you losing by saving to IDML? I saw nothing in your file that would be altered. 

There is a script that can batch process INDD files to IDML:

https://help.redokun.com/article/35-batch-convert-idml-file

[dublove]

The file exported by this script is not working?
Only waiting for the gods to optimize it.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Did you contact Redokun and ask about the script?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Did you contact Redokun and ask about the script?

By @Dave Creamer of IDEAS

The original author is @Peter Kahrel

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/batch_convert.html

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

The file exported by this script is not working?
Only waiting for the gods to optimize it.

By @dublove

What exactly is not working? 

[dublove]

DML exported using this script, cannot be opened.
Is there a script to optimize the Indd file directly, because I found that after saving the Indd file separately, the file gets smaller and is automatically optimized.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

IDML exported using this script, cannot be opened.
[...]

By @dublove

In which version of InDesign?

[...] Is there a script to optimize the Indd file directly, as I find that saving the Indd file separately optimizes it at first glance.

Save As with a new name - does only basic "housekeeping" - strips info about Undo History and probably rewrites internal structure of the file a bit - to make it more ogranised.

IDMLing - removes pretty much everything that is unnecesary - History, previews, all corruptions, etc.

Overall, it's like creating whole INDD file from scratch.

[dublove]

The great Peter Kahrel.
Tried it again and it's OK

Kindness is infinitely great.

Thanks a lot.

[dublove]

Then I tested it.
Found that the problem was solved after saving as IDML with this script.

I tried again with this script to Indd and found that the problem was still there.

So,@Peter Kahrel ,Please

It would be great if can use that script to convert the original Indd file to IDML first, Immediately after that, use that script again to convert IDML to InDD format.

That is, a new feature has been added: "To IDML To InDD"

Because manually convert to IDML and then to InDD some structure will change, will it be better to directly use script to convert IDML to InDD?

That is, the original InDD is optimized to IDML format and then saved as InDD again.
Of course it's better to have a copy so it's safer.

Thank you very much.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

What structure is changing? How would doing it in a script vs manually be any different?

[dublove]

There is definitely a difference, the scripts seem to handle it a bit cleaner.
I'm not sure why.
Otherwise I'd just do it manually, since my job isn't batch.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

There is definitely a difference, the scripts seem to handle it a bit cleaner.
I'm not sure why.
Otherwise I'd just do it manually, since my job isn't batch.

By @dublove

Script is performing EXACTLY the same steps - executing EXACTLY the same functions that you would do manually.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

OK--but WHAT is different?

[dublove]

Please go and vote for it!
Thank you very much.

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/49255046-bi...