Colecandoo! is the blog of Colin Flashman, a prepress operator since 1997. The site aims to provide anyone preparing artwork for print with useful information to make their artwork flow seamlessly in prepress sections of any commercial printer.
The tips on the site are an accumulation of experiences and trials during Colin’s time as a prepress operator, and the blog originally began in the year 2000 as his own rant on an old employer’s website concerning what frustrated him the most about the artwork that had to be processed.
Apart from Colecandoo, Colin also contributes to the printing community in the following ways:
- Contributing writer for CreativePro Magazine and creativepro.com;
- Previously spoken at LAIDUG, CreativeProWeek 2019 and PEPCON 2016 about Data Merge, and has had cameo speaking roles at other CPN events such as the InDesignConference 2016 and CreativeProWeek 2018, and the CreativeWOW sessions of CreativeProWeek 2017-2019. Has also spoken at the Creative Developer Summit 2024 in Washington DC.
- Appeared as a teacher’s assistant at Adobe MAX 2018 assisting students in both Anne-Marie Concepcion and Bart van de Wiele’s classes; and Adobe MAX 2024 assisting students in Adobe Illustrator classes taught by Andrew Hochradel and Shanti Sparrow.
- Previously spoken at several Adobe Users’ Group of South Australia sessions;
- A member of the Adobe Experts Group of the Adobe Forums with the familiar “hands in the air” logo.
- Received the accreditation of Adobe Certified Professional in Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign.
Hi Colin,
nice blog!
I am searching for the script “PDFExportCropper.jsxbin” which you have used here: http://colecandoo.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/variable-qr-codes-sort-of-possible/
Please be so kind and send me the script via email.
I searched for hours but the original file seems to be deleted from the server.
Thank you!
Nick
As I understand, Loic Aigon is reviewing all of his scripts. The note on his blog explains: http://www.loicaigon.com/en/script-debugging-call-files/
This puts me in a dilemma. I cannot give you something that is not mine to give away, but at the same time is a useful script that I feel you should be able to use. I would suggest contacting Loic directly on his blog to get hold of the script: http://www.loicaigon.com/en/about/contact-2/
The best that I can suggest in the meantime is to use the alternate script, customexport.jsx that is still available from http://www.old.scriptopedia.org/index.php?post/custompdfexport.jsx.html
Thank you!
There are a lot of similar scripts doing the same thing.
But: I am looking for a script which refers to a certain paragraph style and converts each page title to a file name. Mmmh…maybe Loic can help me.
It is a good script. From Loic’s post, PDFstyleexporter (the alternate name for PDFExportCropper) is one of the first ones he is going to review. Perhaps try him on twitter: @loicaigon .
There were alternatives to his script that were featured in an earlier article that I wrote: http://colecandoo.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-indesign-files-into-individual-pdfs-that-is/ – have you pursued any of these options?
Colmin8r thank you for your script to Data Merge from InDesign to unique filenames its extremely helpful. Do you know if it is possible for this script to split every 2 pages of a data merge to a unique filename?
Hello there, please accept my sincere apologies for such a long delay in the response. If you mean merge records 1 and 2 to a file, then 3 and 4 to another file, etc, then yes this can be done. Because it is bespoke in nature, this would be a custom-made script that would have to be charged for. Contact me directly via my contact page on this site for further details.
Hi, I have purchase “Data Merge to single records PRO” script. Option ‘Run script prior to export’ not working, export to ‘Print’ also not working, it export only one record. I’m using Indesign 2021 macos mojave, I have also tried it on Windows 10, InDesign 2021, and the results are similar.
Please go to this page: https://colecandoo.com/requests-2/ and get in touch via this form so that I can reach out to you in order to get a packaged file of the art you’re working with and the additional script you’re using so that I can try and replicate the fault at my end.