What you want is a page layout app.
Adobe makes the best its called InDesign.
You need an indexing plugin.
Thank you all. Several ideas to work on.
I did a trial run of your script and it works beautifully on the 5 trial pages I used. My only problem is that the font is too large for my project. I am completely illiterate when it comes to writing scripts so the actual script is like a foreign language to me. How can I reduce the font size?
Will this script keep things in order? i.e. I read one post where the numbers jumped: " 1, 101, 102, 103… Then when it got to 109 it went 109, 11, 110… then 119, 12, 120 and various breaks like that." Is there a resolution to that problem?
The script just works on the file order in the folder. To change the fontsize in the script there is a line ‘var fontSize = 20;
just change the 20 to one that suits you.
Are you really doing a book with over 100 pages in Photoshop?
It may be destined for printing through one of the online "Publishing" companies that require each page to be submitted as a JPEG?
But I would still suggest that you assemble the book in InDesign and then export each page as a separate JPEG if that is what they demand although finding a company which is prepared to work from PDFs would be better.
Yes. I know, but I can’t justify buying expensive new software for one book. I would love InDesign, but I doubt I would be able to use it enough. This book is not for publication. It is only for my rather large family and I intend to produce it as a pdf so everyone can have one on disk without the expense of printing. I will keep one printed copy for myself and will print it myself.
Thank you. I found it and will give it a whirl. Maybe I should learn to do scripts!
Thank you again. I works perfectly. I can’t wait to finish my pages and get them all automatically numbered. I have the indexing automated in Word so I am set to roll.
Paul R what is a jsx file and how do you open it? Your revised download is not openable with anything I have.
The download was supposed to be a script and now it’s an application? Where is Paul R? I could actually use this but not if it’s going to take me a semester to learn it.
PS-CS2/3 understand JSX files the x means extended, a lot of the times script might work if you re-name them to .js
There are some differences when programming different versions of Photoshop eg: #target photoshop is only understood in CS2/CS3 app is not understood in PS7 there are some problems in using translate in CS2 and earlier. Thats why its a good reason why people should say what version they are using.
That explanation doesn’t mean jack to me. How do you put that jsx to work. You can’t copy it into a script because it won’t open.
