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• • June 6, 2011 at 6:46 am #59786
    frikinelmo

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    I work at a company that creates large product catalogs in InDesign. (Multiple 1k+ page catalogs)

    Is there any easy way (or script) to read our text boxes (stories) and spit out the Model# and Page number for each?

    Each product has a text box that is formated like this:

    Model No. (tab) Color (tab) Mfr. Retail:

    CA7592C (tab) Chrome (tab) $500.00

    CA7592SL (tab) Stainless (tab) $550.00

    I'd like it to report out:

    CA7592C – p.472

    CA7592SL – p.472

    Can anyone point me in the right direction? (links to read, scripts that might help)

    Thanks,

    Bill

  • June 13, 2011 at 9:39 am #59846
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    One way to do this would be to use a GREP find/change to apply a character style to the model numbers (even if that character style didn't have any visual appearance… just a name), and then use the IndexMatic script to create the index:

    https://creativepro.com/bui…..d-list.php

  • July 21, 2011 at 5:51 pm #60115
    Marc Autret

    Member

    Thanks for mentioning IndexMatic

    Note that with the new version—IndexMatic2—you no longer need to 'pre-style' the targets in InDesign since the script allows you to capture any desired pattern through a regular expression.

    In frikinelmo's example, one can directly achieve the index using a single query. Something like:

    /(CAd+[A-Z]+)t/ => $1

    See IndexMatic2 user's guide for further details:

    https://www.indiscripts.com/pos…..er-s-guide

    Regards,

    Marc

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