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Re: automating daily planner

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From: Dave Saunders
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 19:35
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I guess my thought process was along these lines: a 365 page InDesign document is going to be a bear and you probably don't need to keep all that info in the InDesign document, so instead, have the data in text files and use a two-page InDesign spread to view the data -- in effect you could use the combination of your scripts and InDesign as a browser of your data with editing.

But, perhaps I'm just dreaming and you'd be better off just doing the whole thing in InDesign, particularly if you're fairly new to ID and scripting.

Thing is, I'm an AppleScript user, so any specific examples I might give would be fairly useless.

In your shoes, I'd design the document on a master page, giving each separate element a Scripting Label using the Scripting Label palette.

Then, your script could release these elements to the pages and populate them with the correct date information, and your daily quote.

Dave
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