Set styleRef to paragraph style styleName Set styleName to my getChoice(styleNames, promptStr) Set styleNames to name of paragraph styles (*Gets list of paragraph styles and calls getChoice to have user choose from the list*) Set styleRef to getParagraphStyle (docRef, promptStr) set promptStr to "Select paragraph style for bookmarks" This will require two handlers: getParagraphStyle that calls getChoice. Next the script will get a list of paragraph styles in the document and have the user select the one to use for the bookmarks. Tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2019"Įrror "Please close dialogs before running script" (*Returns reference to document errors if no document open or modal state is true*)
The script will use a handler, getDocRef, to identify the document and make sure there are no dialogs open. First, verify a document is open in InDesign.
With this the script can use Find Text to identify the top level data item. The user will need to identify the paragraph style for bookmarking. THE DESIRED SOLUTION MAY USE ACROBAT TO SPLIT THE DOCUMENT WITH A SCRIPT TO CREATE THE BOOKMARKS FOR THE MERGED DATA DOCUMENT.
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Identify the paragraph style for the top level data item and make sure Create PDF Bookmarks is checked when the table of contents is created.įOR THOSE WHO WRITE SCRIPTS TO AUTOMATE ADOBE INDESIGN, THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS. One advantage of using Table of Contents is that the resulting list of bookmarks can be veriied prior to exporting the document to PDF. For our example, the Name style was used. It is the paragraph style that identifies the page element to be bookmarked. In the data merge process each placeholder is mapped to an Excel data item. The key to the process is to style the placeholder for each data element using a paragraph style. CREATING BOOKMARKS IN INDESIGNĪ popular method for creating Bookmarks in InDesign manually is to use Table of Contents. Assigning a bookmark to the first data element for each section (data set) can be used by Acrobat to split the PDF. Think of a document where you may have many similar sections created using Data Merge and you wish to create a separate PDF for each. This is where InDesign comes in: creating bookmarks to identify split locations. One, parameter in particular is to use bookmarks. This has to do with Acrobat’s unique feature that allows a single PDF to be split into individual files based on document parameters. While on the subject of using Excel as a data source for InDesign, there is an interesting automation that involves Acrobat.
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