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Scribus => Tutorials, Tips and How-Tos => Topic started by: qroft on January 22, 2024, 11:18:15 AM

Title: File naming huge amount of images in your book.
Post by: qroft on January 22, 2024, 11:18:15 AM
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:

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:

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.