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From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:08

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I've never played with this before, but I can see why you're confused. It
looks a bit of a mess.

The data source is set when you make the template; I can't see any way to
change it (or even find its path) via script.

To set up the merge parameters and do the actual merge, use something like
this:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
    tell document 1
        set properties of data merge options to {center image:true, link
images:true, create new document:true} --etc
        set properties of data merge properties to {record range:"1-2",
records per page:single record} --etc
        merge records data merge 1
    end tell
end tell

There appears to be only one data merge object in a document, and it seems
to be a class that only exists for the merge records command. Yuck.

Anyway, I hope this gets you closer to what you want...

-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>

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