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• • October 27, 2014 at 2:49 pm #71264
    Bryan

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    I just made a 25 page PDF for a client. Each page has 6 storyboard panels (images) and a block of VO text underneath. I won’t go into the insane reasoning, but… the client now wants each “storyboard panel” on it’s own separate page. If this was as simple as creating a new document, with only one Rectangle Frame per page and inserting each PSD image—a little work, but doable.
    However, the VO is not part of the image and so it would need to be recreated, or copy pasted… for each page… not doable.

    Is there a way to create multiple, exportable slices or artboards on a page (or Master Page) and then export each of them to a new document, one to a page, etc.? I would love to be able to create a larger container that included the image and text, and then use a script of some magical origins to export each one to its own page.

    The other alternative, which significantly reduces the professional look of the resulting PDFs is to take irregular-sized screen captures of each storyboard panel and paste those into a new PDF. Boo.

    I’m using InDesign CC ’14.

  • October 28, 2014 at 5:53 am #71272
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    if each image and its VO were grouped together, you could perhaps use the Content Collector tool. You’d just click on each group to add it to the content panel, then when you’re done, you could use the Content Placer tool to click on each page. It’s not the most obvious interface, IMHO, but we have some articles about using it here on the site.

  • October 28, 2014 at 10:16 am #71274
    Bryan

    Participant

    Thanks David. Sometimes just the “name” of the tool is all that is needed to get things moving in the right direction. Seems like there is a lot of complaints around this tool as a dressed up copy/paste… and thank goodness that is what it is. What would be nice is if you could EXPORT from the Content Collector directly to jpg or png image sequence. I bet someone with some scripting skills could make short work of that feature request.

    Thanks again David, I appreciate your time on this! (What’s with Seattle weather/traffic this morning…. 1.75 hours from Duvall to Seattle this morning!)

  • October 30, 2014 at 2:14 pm #71322
    Bryan

    Participant

    Is there any way to “clear” the Content Collector? I know there are three settings, one of which drops the image out of the collector as soon as you place it. But the other two modes, keep the content in the collector permanently… there ought to be a “clear” function. If there isn’t one, I’ll submit a feature request. If there is… where is it!?

    Also, for anyone reading this to learn more about the Content Collector tool, when placing grouped items that include a threaded text element/object… the thread gets broken, so they need to be relinked.

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