Exporting page ranges in Indesign
vinylsofa (50 points) | Wed, 2006-08-02 03:38I'm needing to specify a page range to be exported as a pdf from an InDesign document that is set up as sections. My document is split into three sections and i'm wanting to export pages 12 & 13 from section two, but the range dialog box in pdf export won't allow me to select just these pages. It seems I can only export from page 1 to another page. Can it be done or does the file need to be resaved as a non-sectioned document? Thanks in advance.
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What do you mean by sections? I've never had an issue with selecting a page range in the program. What version of ID are you using?
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By sections I mean you can number the pages in your document from 1-whatever, or split them into sections, with each section beginning from page 1 again, or whatever you choose. It is done in the pages pallette.
I just created an InDesign test document with 3 sections and successfully got InDesign CS2 to export to PDF any range I wanted.
Entering [Sec2:12-Sec2:13] exported pages 12-13 of 'Sec2'.
Check to make sure 'Preferences: General: Page Numbering' is set to 'section numbering' and NOT 'absolute numbering'.
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InDesign Help says the following after searching 'print page range'. Select 'page options' and click the link 'Specifying pages to print'.
...When Section Numbering is selected in the Preferences dialog box, you can enter pages and page ranges exactly as they appear in your layout or using absolute numbering. For example, if the page labeled SecA:5 is the fifteenth page in your document, you could print it by entering “SecA:5” in the Print dialog box or by entering “+15”. The “+” sign indicates that you want to override the normal section and page numbering to use absolute page numbering.
Sec2:7
Page numbered 7 (not necessarily the seventh page of that section) in section labeled “Sec2:”
Sec4:3-Sec4:6, Sec3:7
Pages 3–6 in “Sec4” and page 7 in “Sec3”.
I was keying in the wrong numbering format. I wasn't using the section determinator for the second page in the range.
That is, I had keyed it in like this: Sec2:6-7
which would tell me there were no pages that matched those numbers, so I'd had to export from page 1 and then extract the pages from the pdf. Clunky and annoying.
Keying it like you've suggested
Sec2:6-Sec2:7 works fine.
Also I was looking under 'export page range' in Indesign help, which said if your document was a book, then you were limited in the page range you could export - which threw me off the scent.
Cheers for your help on this.
enter non-consecutive pages by using commas
Sec1:4,6,8-9 or Sec2:3,5,11 etc...
I know it works for normal pages, but I haven't tried it with sections.
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