Sort by Caption

I have a tricky issue. My newspaper requires pictures to have a certain file name format befoe I upload to them. I've been playing with the Custom name export options, but cannot figure out how to get what I need.
They want this:
mmdd_ncfe_make it green1
Where mmdd is the month and day that the story will run. I usually upload five days before the story runs if this is helpful. It's simple to prepend the current date, but, as far as I've been able to determine, the 'current day' variable won't accept a "+5".
The text in the middle is simple.
The numeral at the end is also simple, but Aperture wants to put "1 of 8" rather than just the numeral, and the Scripps server barfs at the "of X" part.
It's not like there are a lot of photos, more like 5-8 per week, so if I have to rename them possibly it's easier in the Finder?
Aperture 3.3.
Michael

Hi Michael,
First, your topic title is "Sort by Caption".  Is that a mistake?
On to the question you ask.  Afaict, the "mmdd" part of the desired file name can not be calculated because it is independent of any other reference point.  You "usually upload five days before", which means that even if you could do "today+5d" in the file name, you'd still have to have something else for times when the story will run on some day other than "today+5d".
For 5-8 photos a week, I suggest using a naming convention with a "Custom" field that you fill out. "{Custom}{Counter}", where for each export you provide when prompted the actual 4-digit prefix you need, followed by an underscore, the 4-character code, and underscore, and the variable text.
If any part of "_ncfe_make it green" is invariable, then include it in the File Naming Preset.
You might consider creating duplicate Versions of each photo to be uploaded (stack these and make the dupes the Stack Picks; and optionally keyword or label them), and change the Version names.  This would make it easy to group and find the Images you used to make files to upload.  I suggest an Aperture Folder called something like "Scripps Uploads" with Albums carrying an identifying name (e.g.: May Day Parade).
If you have any need for more robust file naming outside of Aperture, I use and recommend NameMangler.

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