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in article ef8d1e0.11@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4, steve budzynski wrote:

> I've been told that through Applescript, ID2 can read Filemaker fields and
> populate an ID2 document with that information. For example, a product that
> can do this for Quark is Xcatalog from EM Software. Unfortunatly, my
> department does not have the $$ for more software or I would have already
> pursued that option. Am I dreaming or can this be done?

It can be done. Here's a simple example that assumes you have an InDesign
document open with a whole lot of pages all containing a frame labelled
"Name", and a database open, also with a field named "Name":

tell application "FileMaker Pro"
 set recCount to count of records of database 1
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to recCount
 tell application "FileMaker Pro"
  tell database 1
   set theName to cell "Name" of record i
  end tell
 end tell
 tell application "InDesign 2.0.1"
  tell document 1
   set contents of text frame "Name" of page i to theName
  end tell
 end tell
end repeat

The big differences between this approach and Xcatalog -- or InCatalog, for
InDesign -- are (a) speed, and (b) X/InCatalog maintains live links, so you
can later update things more quickly and easily. Both methods have their
place.

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au