Gold ink is not exactly the same as other 'regular' inks, as it is much less oilier. I think I've heard it's best when printed directly onto the paper (a knock out), and it may cause smudges when printed on top of other inks.

By the way, as almost all inks, it's not really opaque, so the apparent color will change when printed over another color.

To be totally sure, you should ask your printer. He will know how his brand of gold ink behaves on his own press.

Good tip! (Perhaps an oversight from Mac based Adobe programmers?)

Helios Textpad is a good Windows editor where you can inspect and change the line endings and text encoding.

This is what I came up with, for the moment. It gathers ranges of Master names and inserts them on a page of their own at the end of your current document. No color labels so far, because there is no immediate connection between UIColors (Salmon, Gold) and RGB colors, so these would have to be converted one by one. Still, it's a start.

(I didn't realize when writing the script, but the very final [None] entry is, of course, the page the script adds.)

endPage = app.activeDocument.pages.add(LocationOptions.AT_END);
endPage.appliedMaster = null;
someFrame = endPage.textFrames.add ({geometricBounds:[endPage.bounds[0]+endPage.marginPreferences.top, endPage.bounds[1]+endPage.marginPreferences.left, endPage.bounds[2]-endPage.marginPreferences.bottom, endPage.bounds[3]-endPage.marginPreferences.right]});

text = [];
currentPage = 0;
nextPage = currentPage;
while (nextPage < app.activeDocument.pages.length)
{
currentMaster = app.activeDocument.pages[currentPage].appliedMaster;
while (nextPage < app.activeDocument.pages.length)
{
if (app.activeDocument.pages[nextPage].appliedMaster != currentMaster)
break;
nextPage++;
}
if (currentMaster == null)
name = “[None]”;
else
name = currentMaster.name;
if (currentPage == nextPage-1)
text.push (“P.: “+app.activeDocument.pages[currentPage].name+”: “+name);
else
text.push (“Pp: “+app.activeDocument.pages[currentPage].name+”-“+app.activeDocument.pages[nextPage-1].name+”: “+name);
currentPage = nextPage;
}

someFrame.contents = text.join(“r”);

This is what I came up with, for the moment. It gathers ranges of Master names and inserts them on a page of their own at the end of your current document. No color labels so far, because there is no immediate connection between UIColors (Salmon, Gold) and RGB colors, so these would have to be converted one by one. Still, it's a start.

(I didn't realize when writing the script, but the very final [None] entry is, of course, the page the script adds.)

endPage = app.activeDocument.pages.add(LocationOptions.AT_END);
endPage.appliedMaster = null;
someFrame = endPage.textFrames.add ({geometricBounds:[endPage.bounds[0]+endPage.marginPreferences.top, endPage.bounds[1]+endPage.marginPreferences.left, endPage.bounds[2]-endPage.marginPreferences.bottom, endPage.bounds[3]-endPage.marginPreferences.right]});

text = [];
currentPage = 0;
nextPage = currentPage;
while (nextPage < app.activeDocument.pages.length)
{
currentMaster = app.activeDocument.pages[currentPage].appliedMaster;
while (nextPage < app.activeDocument.pages.length)
{
if (app.activeDocument.pages[nextPage].appliedMaster != currentMaster)
break;
nextPage++;
}
if (currentMaster == null)
name = “[None]”;
else
name = currentMaster.name;
if (currentPage == nextPage-1)
text.push (“P.: “+app.activeDocument.pages[currentPage].name+”: “+name);
else
text.push (“Pp: “+app.activeDocument.pages[currentPage].name+”-“+app.activeDocument.pages[nextPage-1].name+”: “+name);
currentPage = nextPage;
}

someFrame.contents = text.join(“r”);

Check “Replace Selected Item” …

(ID treats a text cursor inside text as “selection”, even though the length of the selection is 0.)

Okay … I can actually duplicate this behaviour, but only if I export to “test.txt” instead of “test” (which is saved as “test.pdf”) and even “test.” (saved as “test..pdf” (!)).

Does your ID document name contain a period? (… unlikely to be the actual problem, because even if I name a file “test.txt.indd”, it gets exported by default as “test.txt.pdf”. Nevertheless … does it?)

Check “Replace Selected Item” …

(ID treats a text cursor inside text as “selection”, even though the length of the selection is 0.)

You are always welcome to submit your requests to Adobe, but …

1. More than 7 x 7 thumbnails per page — are you serious? And that's to “discuss the book content with my client” — who's your client? The king of Liliput and Blefescu? What page size can you possibly print this on to have something even remotely readable?

2. Apparently, the colors are just for use in the interface. Still, perhaps there is something in that idea. But your summary thing is far too specific to be of general use. Fortunately, the page label colors are exposed to the Scripting model, so it's quite possible to write a script to do these calculations for you.