Publisher: Export data/text from multiple pages ("reverse data merge")

[Alatron]

Is there some way to easily export all text fields in  a specific field? In a way, I am asking for a reverse data merge to mark specific text fields and then export all content into separate table fields in a CSV.

I have 100 pages within a publisher document and need the content from multiple text boxes in a CSV.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

The Affinity applications cannot export text files at all.

[carl123]

Off the top of my head...

End each text frame with a comma (search and replace)

Export to PDF format

Copy & paste all text from the PDF into a text editor and tidy up

Might work, might not, don't really know what you want to do without a sample document

[Alatron]

Thanks, that is what I suspected that there is no functionality like this.

Exporting into PDF and copying all text out of that actually produces results that are usable, so I only need to run a few scripts on the resulting text to create a line per page. Will test around a bit with that - thanks for the suggestion!