File naming huge amount of images in your book.

[qroft]

Hi everyone,
I just want to share with you my error so that you can learn from my fails.

Two weeks ago i published my first book created with Scribus on lulu.com
Said book contains over 1.100 chart images.

My images were called like this: chart-x.png (where the X stands for a number).
As i did not implemented the images in alphabetical order, i was unable to see if i missed any image.

The Scribus image manager showed the images like this:

• chart-1.png
• chart-10.png
• chart-11.png
• chart-12.png
• chart-13.png
• chart-14.png
• chart-15.png
• chart-16.png
• chart-17.png
• chart-18.png
• chart-19.png
• chart-20.png
• chart-21.png
• chart-22.png
• chart-23.png
• chart-24.png
• chart-25.png
• etc....

In other words: there was no real order of the images because i had no leading zeroes.

SOLUTION
Insetead of naming your image files like chart-x.png you should name them chart-xxxx.png where the X would stand for the leading zeroes.

Your images folder would then look like this and show the images in a correct form inside the Scribus image manager:

• chart-0001.png
• chart-0002.png
• chart-0003.png
• chart-0004.png
• chart-0005.png
• chart-0006.png
• chart-0007.png
• chart-0008.png
• chart-0009.png
• chart-0010.png
• chart-0011.png
• chart-0012.png
• chart-0013.png
• chart-0014.png
• chart-0015.png
• chart-0016.png
• chart-0017.png
• chart-0018.png
• chart-0019.png
• chart-0020.png
• chart-0021.png
• chart-0022.png
• chart-0023.png
• chart-0024.png
• chart-0025.png
• etc....

SOLUTION - TOOLS
A freeware tool that i have been using for years is called "Bulk renaming tool" but for some reason i was to dump to have the correct form of renaming the files.
Then XNVIEW came into my mind and it worked like a charm as you can rename those files as bulk.

This saved me hours of manually renaming the files.