On Aug 1, 2008, at 9:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The client has created an InDesign file with over 100, 4 by 6 coupon
pages, which I will be calling in variably onto an 8x11 shell.
Sure, I've seen a lot of jobs like this.
Each coupon
page has multiple variable areas and so I cant save these as images.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. Do you mean that you want to
grab specific areas from various pages? You should be able to export
to PDF, then use Acrobat to crop down each page to the specific area
you need, and save each one to a different new PDF. Or, use InDesign
to create pages with just the areas you want and then export those.
In any case, saving each one as an images is exactly what you need to
do, and I'm missing why you think that isn't possible. Unless the
customer has provided pages with all the possible combinations of the
coupons on them, you're going to need to break them up anyway.
I
need to bring in the text design without having to rebuild what the
client
has already paid someone to do and approved.
Well, this is the rub with variable data. Often what the customer has
approved is based on static content, or a limited set of data, and
doesn't take every possibility into account. Something's gotta give
when you get to a case that hasn't been accounted for in the design.
So it seems to me that some back-and-forth with the end client is
inevitable.
So far I've created a Formatted Text Resource & did a cut/paste and
this
doesn't save all the InDesign formats
I wouldn't expect every bit of formatting to be preserved. As I've
said before, InDesign, QuarkXPress, and FusionPro all have their own
unique typographical capabilities, and they all do typesetting in
subtly different ways. There's no one "right" way to do things, so
there's no way that any typesetting engine can completely replicate
another engine's algorithms.
, this can't be the only way to do
this in FusionPro.
Right, this is why we have the workflow that we do, which allows
static elements, from any design tool, to be mixed with variable
content. You had the right idea in the first place with bringing in
the coupons as graphics.
What would be the safest way to bring this into FusionPro Desktop
without
having to recreate or reformat?
How would you approach this?
Is there a way to save them as EPS files and pre-tag the variable
areas?
Again, you shouldn't need to reformat anything, as long as each coupon
is approximately the same size. You just need to extract them from
the larger pages in InDesign.
Dan
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