Re: Automatic Page Layout Question
Re: Automatic Page Layout Question
- Subject: Re: Automatic Page Layout Question
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:52:13 -0700
at 3/22/01, 5:23 PM +0800, they whom i call Brent Deverman wrote:
I want to take a pre drawn graphic that does not change and duplicate it
multiple times on a page for as many pages needed to get 20,000 instances of
this graphic. While I'm doing this, I need to place a different name
overlaying each graphic.
What would be the best program to script this?
- Freehand
- Illustrator (is this scriptable?)
- InDesign (is this scriptable?)
- QuarkExpress
i'd say XPress or InDesign. problem with InDesign is it bogs
down quickly on documents as large as yours will be, so go
with Quark. Illustrator can't do multiple pages natively,
though there are workarounds with tiling or layers. i haven't
scripted FreeHand, but my intuition is it would be hard to
use for your project.
you might not need to script it. the XData QuarkXTension
can probably do it <
http://www.emsoftware.com>. XData is like
mail merge on steroids. it is, in effect, its own scripting
language. i've used it for years.
mail merge in a word processor might work, though 20k images
seems like a lot for a word processor.
if you want to script it instead, XPress is still the choice.
InDesign has great scriptability, but it would bog.
Where can I find some scripts to use as a starting point?
<
http://members.aol.com/hshields/>
<
http://www.quark.com/support/scripting.html>
note the warning that some of the samples aren't
4.1 compatible.
steve harley email@hidden