![]() So how is this done? SOLUTION ONE: Loic Again! Using the earlier solutions, the files would still need to be renamed afterwards. Using an example of business cards that have been data-merged to a new InDesign file, the brief is now to produce PDFs with filenames that reflect the names of the people on the business cards. Yes, it is possible to export to individual or smaller page PDFs, but the naming of the files could be better. So the question is answered… right? Yes and no. This recent application again has not been tested by Colecandoo, nor is this a paid endorsement. UPDATE : There is a new standalone application that allows InDesign to reference an Excel file and prepare single record PDFs. This has not been tested by Colecandoo, nor is this a paid endorsement. One such solution is PDF Bee by Chris Paveglio. ![]() UPDATE 8: There are also paid solutions that can accomplish this task. Read more about his script here and read his related blog posts concerning renaming of files. While it does not have a user interface, it certainly does the job. Fellow wordpresser Macgrunt has also produced an applescript that allows the export of single page PDFs from one InDesign file.Yet another javascript with a more sophisticated interface is Scott Zanelli’s Page Exporter Utility that had been discussed on this blog before.(updated 5 November 2013)Scripter Dmitry Lapaev offers three scripted solutions, but of these there are two that will be of most use to those who intend to output to print: the first is Quick Export to Adobe PDF (see this link here) and the next is Batch Export to PDF (see this link here).Scripter Loic Aigon produced a script called Custom Export – an InDesign javascript that behaves in a similar fashion to the Split Document feature of Acrobat, but without leaving InDesign.However, there are at least four scriptable solutions available as of this moment: UPDATE 4: I have written an article for that demonstrates two possible ways of doing this via InDesign that do not require any scripting, but they are not one-step solutions. However, the brief was “ How to split an InDesign file into single page PDFs”.īy default, there is no way to do this directly from InDesign without a script. So splitting a large PDF into smaller PDFs is possible via Acrobat. This also provides limited control concerning the name and location of the resulting split PDFs, as well as other ways of splitting the PDF (e.g. singles, doubles etc) is possible via the Split Document feature of Acrobat X and up. ![]() Splitting a large PDF into fixed page lengths (e.g. The resulting pages are then extracted to the same file location as the original PDF but contains an underscore and page number in the filename. Splitting a large PDF into single page PDFs is possible via the extract pages feature of Acrobat 9 and up. Several forums dedicated to InDesign advice have recently been asked the following question: “ How to split an InDesign file into single page PDFs”. UPDATE : I have created a solution that will save uniquely-named InDesign or PDFs from a Data Merge. ![]()
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