RalphT

Yeah, some built in scripting tools would be useful. (In fairness, though, Photoshop didn't acquire those until a good few years into its life.)

This is outstanding, thank you. I'd suspected there would be a script somewhere Of course one can set up a long Publisher document with the same image on every page, then number the pages and output each individually but the memory requirements for a file with say a thousand image pages,... well.... Great stuff, thank you. PDFd this response and saved it in case some disaster strikes. Have a superior rest of the weekend.

Hey Thank you. Yeah, imagine an edition of artworks where the number is placed within the art, rather than as an artist scribble on the matt. It would be a simple enough styling which in itself is of course easy. The hard part is not having to type in the number, export the file, type in the next number, export the file as the next number along, type the next number.... Renumbering of files within Finder folders (Mac here) is best done with A Better Finder Rename - a stunningly useful utility, in case you don't know it.

I need to generate (n) files of the same artwork, each one numbered with its own edition number 0001 to 000(n). The number string needs to be styled of course, but from one output file to the next there will be no alterations to the file other than the addition of the next consecutive number. Anyone got clues as to how one can automate this process? Many thanks!!!