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.
SOLUTIONInsetead 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 - TOOLSA 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.