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InDesign & Applescript Data Merge

#9091
From: Matt_UK
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:07
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Hi,

I'm trying to get an applescript to run to create a new doc using data merged from a csv.
The datamerge works fine if I do it manually, but I can't get it to work using applescript.

Here's my effort so far...

tell application "Finder"
	open document file "myfile.indd"
	--set data file path
	set myDataFile to "mycsv.csv"
	tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
		set myDocument to active document
		tell data merge options
			set remove blank lines to true
			set link images to true
			set create new document to true
			set fitting option to proportional
		end tell

		tell data merge properties of myDocument
			select data source data source file myDataFile
		end tell
		merge records
	end tell
end tell

The script seems to crash on select data source, with error message:

Adobe InDesign CS2 got an error: data merge properties of document "..." doesn't understand the select data source message.

Any ideas much appreciated.

Cheers,

Matt.
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