One final note: just as I was finishing this article, I saw that Austrian designer and scripter Roland Dreger has released a Beta version of his script that will also make bookmarks from Paragraph and Character styles. My contribution was to simply stitch the two scripts together. Ariel Walden’s script to select a paragraph style.If you would rather use a character style instead of a paragraph style, there is an alternate version of the script that allows bookmarks to be made from character styles instead. In this dialog box, choose a new folder to save the resulting PDFs (if necessary) and in the File Labeling portion of the dialog box, check the Use Bookmark Names for File Names radio button.Īs with the previous methods, this technique will not work if the merge contains records that have the same name. If so, go to the Pages tools and select Split Document. In the new dialog box, check the radio button Top-level bookmarks and click the Output Options button. Go to the Bookmarks panel and make sure that the bookmarks have been created. Export the InDesign file to a PDF, with bookmarks turned on.Ħ. In the bookmarks panel, all of the names will now be assigned bookmarks.įrom here, steps 5 and 6 are identical to the previous article:ĥ. The script will then run and on completion, a “completed” dialog box will appear. Select the desired style from the dropdown menu and click OK. A prompt will ask what paragraph style to choose. Once the new merged InDesign file is created, navigate to the Scripts panel and run the addbookmarksfromparagraphstyle.jsx script.Ĥ. Merge to a new InDesign file, making sure that the overset text warning reports no overset text.ģ. It does exactly what the name promises: exporting your selection to a pdf file. Automatication made a great tool or this, a script which adds an ‘Export selection to PDF’ menu item to your file menu. Make sure that the names have a unique paragraph style – in this example the style is called “ consultant”.Ģ. Usually, I do not want to export a complete page to pdf in those cases, but only the boxes and text that’s going to make up the illustration. Prepare the base file – the merge fields do not have to be on the master pages. The first two steps are identical to the previous article.ġ. Once again, we’ll create a set of business cards and the PDFs will be named exactly as the names on each business card. Add this script to your Scripts panel (for more information on installing and using scripts, see this post). Since that post was written, a third method now exists to create individually named PDFs from an InDesign Data Merge that has been merged into one file (or any InDesign document for that matter): A script to make bookmarks based on a paragraph styleįor this technique, you will need the “ addbookmarksfromparagraphstyle.jsx” script. I had mentioned that at the time of writing, I had been considering the use of a script to take a specific paragraph or character style to convert to bookmarks, and that Ukrainian scripter Kasyan Servetsky had a script that came close, but only created text anchors that were hidden instead of bookmarks. bookmarks from a table of contents and.
In my last post, I outlined how to create individually named PDFs from a Data Merge using:
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