Re: Automatic Page Layout Question
Re: Automatic Page Layout Question
- Subject: Re: Automatic Page Layout Question
- From: Kevin Windham <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:56:29 -0600
I'd suggest using Creator Pro from Multi-Ad. It is fully scriptable and
recordable, and attachable, and tinkerable. It has many features that are
more advanced than quark. You can download a demo from
http://www.creator2.com/
HTH,
Kevin
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at 3/22/01, 5:23 PM +0800, they whom i call Brent Deverman wrote:
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> I want to take a pre drawn graphic that does not change and duplicate it
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> multiple times on a page for as many pages needed to get 20,000 instances of
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> this graphic. While I'm doing this, I need to place a different name
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> overlaying each graphic.
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> What would be the best program to script this?
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> - Freehand
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> - Illustrator (is this scriptable?)
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> - InDesign (is this scriptable?)
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> - QuarkExpress
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i'd say XPress or InDesign. problem with InDesign is it bogs
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down quickly on documents as large as yours will be, so go
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with Quark. Illustrator can't do multiple pages natively,
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though there are workarounds with tiling or layers. i haven't
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scripted FreeHand, but my intuition is it would be hard to
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use for your project.
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you might not need to script it. the XData QuarkXTension
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can probably do it <http://www.emsoftware.com>. XData is like
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mail merge on steroids. it is, in effect, its own scripting
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language. i've used it for years.
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mail merge in a word processor might work, though 20k images
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seems like a lot for a word processor.
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if you want to script it instead, XPress is still the choice.
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InDesign has great scriptability, but it would bog.
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> Where can I find some scripts to use as a starting point?