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From: bank5
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:43

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I need to populate the TextFrames in my InDesign document with information from a database. I'm not sure what the best way to do this, but I was thinking about making an ASP script to store the data into a text file. I could then write a script for InDesign using javascript's file system object and read in the values from the text object.

Does anyone know of a better/simpler way? I know InDesign has some XML capabilities but I don't know too much about it.

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