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Nathan Rule
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February 13, 2024
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How Can i export each page to a specific name and number, that is located on the page itself?

  • February 13, 2024
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Basically i just want to export the page names themselves as i have two fields that control the page naming convention. This isnt a normal thing like a book, but for plans where i have a sheet set "W101 - GENERAL NOTES" "W102 - MATERIALS AND FINISHES"
Then i would like to have it generate just a .txt file of that info for every page. That way i can run this and it would give me a "Sheet Index" of every page and name.

 

Anyone know of something that would help like a script?

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    TᴀW
    TᴀW
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    February 13, 2024

    I don't quite understand. What do you want to export the pages as? PDF? So one PDF per page? And the name of each PDF should be based on text that appears on that page?

    And then, as a second stage, a txt file containing a list of all the created filenames?

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    Nathan RuleAuthor
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    February 13, 2024

    No i just want a TXT file of the names. Basically i eneterd the text in a text frame, and the Pages numbers show up in a text frame, i want to export that information as text. so i will have a text file that reads like this: (This is an actual thing i just had to do) In indesign it just lists the page number in the Pages palette (001, 002 etc) I have in the section given it a prefix of W so on the actual document it says W001. But there is also a "page name" we call sheet title that is entered in a seperate frame so when you print out that page .

     

    W001SIGNAGE AND WAYFINDING GENERAL NOTES
    W002GRAPHIC STANDARDS
    W003STANDARD FINISHES
    W101OVERALL SIGN LOCATION PLAN
    W102SIGN LOCATION PLAN
    W103SIGN LOCATION PLAN
    W104SIGN LOCATION PLAN
    W105SIGN LOCATION PLAN
    W201BUILDING SIGN LOCATION PLAN
    W301SIGN TYPE A1-C SINGLE SIDED
    W302SIGN TYPE A1-C SINGLE SIDED DETAIL DRAWING
    W303SIGN TYPE C1-C
    W304SIGN TYPE D1
    W305SIGN TYPE F1-C
    W306SIGN TYPE H1-C & H2-C DRAWING
    W401ADA SIGNAGE SIGN TYPE G1-G8
    brian_p_dts
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    brian_p_dtsCommunity Expert
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    February 13, 2024

    How might we target the sheet name and sheet title in a script? Are they named text frames in your layers panel, a unique paragraph style, or some other unique way so we don't grab other text elements on the page?

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