Indesign Scripting?
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We have a client that wants to produce individual PDF infographics for their employees salary & benefits packages. They want it to be an ice cream with for example the cone representing salary, group income protection, life insurance and the scoops representing health insurance and pension etc.
They have 200 fucking employees.
I know you can do scripting in Indesign but further than that I have no clue at all how this might be done.
Can anyone recommend any tutorials, insights or another way to do something like this?
Any help greatly appreciated.
- ESKEMA0
Your text is a bit confusing, what do you need exactly? An ice cream cone that changes values / shape for each employee?
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- well cone and ice cream flavours/size********
- It's retarded I know.********
- exactly
- ESKEMA0
I think you'll need to do it outside ID, and place it there. Indesign is not ideal for that kind of stuff.
- Yea, any other software that can run scripts to change shapes/sizes/colours of elements?********
- Never used scripts for this kind of thing in my life. Illustrator?********
- Yea, any other software that can run scripts to change shapes/sizes/colours of elements?
- Salarrue0
from my bookmarks.
http://profeadobe.blogspot.ca/se… (spanish)
http://www.sachaheck.net/blog/in…
http://hilfdirselbst.org/index1.… (german)
http://www.indesign-faq.de/de (german)
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indes…
http://www.dtptools.com/product.…
http://indesignsecrets.com/resou…
- Salarrue0
also.... https://creative.adobe.com/addon…
- Thanks, much appreciated. Will take a look through.********
- Thanks, much appreciated. Will take a look through.
- Salarrue0
I think the simple way to do it is a combination of data merging with some Paragraph / Character styles. Let me know if you need some help.
- ESKEMA0
Chartwell might help too..