Reply To: Inhouse setup for 5-up print

the batch rename feature in bridge is one of the things i really love about bridge. its actually the only reason i really use it.

navigate to a particular folder using bridge so that the files to be renamed are visible. from here, click on the tools menu and then click batch rename.

a new dialog box will appear and within this box are several options on how to rename all the files in that folder. next to the options there are plus and minus signs which either add or remove file naming options. for the example in question, only the “sequence number” option needs to be present with three digits option at the end. to see if these options are going to work, there is a preview of how the renamed files will look at the bottom of the dialog box. at the top of the dialog box there's also the ability to copy to other folder so that if the renaming didn't work, it hasn't ruined the originals.

breaking the one 300 page file up into 300 one page files and naming them 001.pdf; 002.pdf etc is important for the datamerge onto a 5-up template as (AFAIK) datamerge won't reference pages in a multipage pdf file, just the first page.

hope this helps :D