Export individual page to individual file

[VillyReality]

Having maybe 200 pages. Export individual page to individual file, so that the outcome is 200 single page files.

 

Just that.

Please ❤️

[carl123]

 

1 hour ago, VillyReality said:

Export individual page to individual file

1. What sort of file do you want to export to? (jpg, png, psd, *.afpub)

2. Do you also have Affinity Photo or Designer?

[loukash]

8 hours ago, carl123 said:

 Do you also have Affinity Photo or Designer?

If you're thinking of batch export via Export persona, I don't think it will work. You still need to switch pages manually.
It works like that with artboards, however.

[Fixx]

It is quite easy to create Automator action if you have mac. I was doubtful if it needed deep knowledge but you just select "Split PDF" from a list and save. As a quick action command is available right click menu in Finder.

[loukash]

41 minutes ago, Fixx said:

It is quite easy to create Automator action if you have mac.

Keep in mind that while splitting will work with "generic" PDFs, it will kill all PDF/X compatibility if that's your desired output.

[MEB]

Hi @VillyReality,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to File > Export and set the Area dropdown to All Pages.

[Joachim_L]

2 minutes ago, MEB said:

Go to File > Export and set the Area dropdown to All Pages.

I guess the OP wants to have 200 separate files.

[loukash]

2 minutes ago, MEB said:

Go to File > Export and set the Area dropdown to All Pages.

For PDF, that will export all pages to one file.
Not:

On 5/7/2021 at 10:53 AM, VillyReality said:

Export individual page to individual file, so that the outcome is 200 single page files

For that, you'd have to export as EPS (yuck!), then convert those to PDF.

[MEB]

The OP haven't specified any format in particular. In the case of PDF you can easily split it if necessary. I would be nice to have a bit more info about what the OP is trying to do.

[loukash]

30 minutes ago, MEB said:

The OP haven't specified any format in particular.

"200 pages" in "Publisher"?
I really wonder how many people would want to export each page e.g. as JPEG.
But fair enough, you can never know.

[Wosven]

On 5/10/2021 at 3:44 PM, loukash said:

I really wonder how many people would want to export each page e.g. as JPEG.

10, 50... 200 same problem, and more if you need to correct something in the master pages and do it again.

Designer export persona could have been better and usefull in APub too, if some ideas posted were taken in account. I suppose now it's somewhere in the prehistoric part of this forum.

Perhaps it's needed as thumbnails, or for other need.

The more versatile an app is, the easier you'll solve impossible problems and requests issued by clients and bosses. Most of them...
(I don't think it's possible today yet, to get the other façade of a building's picture just because 3D apps exist, but I'll always remember when our boss asked this, and how difficult it was to stay serious and give an answer) .

[loukash]

1 minute ago, Wosven said:

Designer export persona

Speaking of which… a brilliant workaround just popped up half an hour ago:

 

[loukash]

So, to recap the Designer workaround above:

1. export from Publisher in the "least destructive" PDF format, avoiding as much flattening and rasterizing as only possible
2. open PDF in Designer with the "favor editable text" options disabled
3. export artboards ("ex-pages") as slices to individual PDF pages

[Wosven]

Interesting, I was coming back to add that exporting to different formats is important too.

Long ago, managing a lot of adds was easy: we print them, use cisors to cut them and staple them on the right letters, and send them by mail after printing and sticking labels.

 

New job, new process. They wanted it done by email... and the poor guys had to modify a template to add the ad, the adress, etc. to produce a PDF they could send by email or by mail, eventually.

Using scripts in ID was helpfull and shortened  a lot the process.

• One of the script helped archiving the ad's file in the right folder on the server, and permited to export the add in 2 other different formats at other pathes where needed.
• Another script was able to retrieve images from a folder and adresses from another file to merge them and create pages for each ad with the necessary data. It was able to export them as single PDF pages (or double if created so, when the ad was too big to be with our blablah on a single page).
• A HTML page was able to generate emails with the ad and main text, since we needed some text to send the PDF with.

All this wouldn't have been possible without scripting, of course, but the export panel in ID. That's why it'simportant to add an export persona in APub too.

 

Switching app can help or be usefull, but it won't replace important features needed with the main app (and I suppose for people doing layout, they need important features in APub, not another bunch of tricks).

[loukash]

21 minutes ago, Wosven said:

Using scripts in ID was helpfull and shortened  a lot the process.

It's not entirely impossible in APu either. Especially the modal Export dialog window should be a relatively easy target for System Events scripting:

[Wosven]

23 minutes ago, loukash said:

System Events scripting

I never script for QXD, since it was only at work and on OS X... Being able to script in a language that is usable on all systems is very important, so you don't need to do again from scratch in another language when needed for another OS.

And I'm currently on Windows

(and the fact that we use both OSes at work is important too: scripts should work on both of them)

[loukash]

@Wosven, we're drifting off topic…

[MEB]

Hi @VillyReality,
Out of curiosity, for what do you need to export the 200 pages as individual files as opposed to a single file with independent pages (assuming you want to export to PDF)? Thanks.

[MikeW]

31 minutes ago, Wosven said:

I never script for QXD, since it was only at work and on OS X... Being able to script in a language that is usable on all systems is very important, so you don't need to do again from scratch in another language when needed for another OS.

And I'm currently on Windows

(and the fact that we use both OSes at work is important too: scripts should work on both of them)

(Off topic...QXP can export a pdf as individual pages natively. So too with jpgs or tiff or png. Newer versions also can be scripted using JS, but is not a truly viable option for much as the api isn't completely exposed.)

[VillyReality]

Im sorry, but i did not know this was going to be so hot of a debate xD

Just to be clear, Designer has the feature to make artboards, and export them all to seperate files, which is nice. Publisher has the Data Merge feature to make alot of pages with the same style. I like EITHER Publisher to get a feature to export to seperate file (which is why im posting here because i belive that would be the easiest to implement) or for Designer to get Data Merge.

I have 2 use cases at the moment:

1. Im making alot of posters with the exact same style, but the bagground image and some text should change depending on the image. It would be nice to be 100% sure that all colors are correct for these with printing markers on them in seperate files so i can send the specific one to the printing service. I need those in PDF.
2. Its like the same, but its be SoMe posts, and it has a bagground image of a person, and then the text would be the famous qoute they have said. I need those in JPG for Instagram.

I hope my request makes sense now :)

[MEB]

Hi @VillyReality;
Thank for your reply/feedback. I will pass this to the dev team as an improvement request (export pages as independent files as an option for PDF). It's then up to management/development to decide if/how to proceed. 

[wonderings]

This is a basic feature in Indesign for PDF output. There are times it is handy for unique situations. Not something I think regularly used, but used enough... by me at least. 

[Mithferion]

If you want anythying other than a PDF, from the File > Export... option you can select PNG, form example, and it will give you separated PNG files...

If you want separated PDF files, the least problematic way to go (in Windows) is doing it in Designer. In the Export Persona, you export each Page at a time, in PDF format.

Best regards!

P. S.: yes, I hope this can be implemented even if I do really use it.

[loukash]

1 hour ago, wonderings said:

This is a basic feature in Indesign for PDF output.

Well, not in version 1.x, and not even in v7.5.3 yet, for that matter.
So it took them what…? like 15 years or so to implement it?
Just sayin’…

[uneMule]

On 5/10/2021 at 3:05 PM, loukash said:

For that, you'd have to export as EPS (yuck!), then convert those to PDF.

Faire cela peut modifier la nature du fichier (gestion des effets, transparences...) ?!

*****

Doing this can change the nature of the file (effects management, transparencies...)?!