Is there a way to populate an InDesign document with Pantone colors from a .csv document?

Question

I have a CSV document that inputs copy information into various labels we have set up in InDesign, but we also have Pantone colors that we put into this document.  Currently, it just imports the color number and we manually change the color ourselves, but is there a way to automatically populate the colors into the document?

Answer 1

Hi,
Here is some code you may want to play with
Array.prototype.contains =  function ( object )
  var i = 0, n = this.length;
  for ( i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ )
  if ( this[i] === object )
  return true;
  return false;
function createLabels() {
  var filterFunction = function(file)
  return /\.csv$/.test ( file.name );
  var f = File.openDialog("Please select CSV Files…", filterFunction);
  var sep = "\t";
  var n = 0;
  var headers = [];
  var rows = [], row = [];
  var doc, m, pw,pb,ph, np, tf, tfo;
  var p;
  if ( !f) { return; }
  f.open("r");
  headers = f.readln().split(sep);
  while ( !f.eof ){
  row = f.readln().split(sep);
  row.length>1 && rows [ rows.length ]  = {contents:row[0], colorName:row[1]};
  n = rows.length;
  if ( !n ) {
  alert("No data");
  return;
  doc = app.documents.add();
  doc.documentPreferences.facingPages = false;
  m = doc.pages[0].marginPreferences;
  pb = doc.pages[0].bounds;
  while (n--) {
  row = rows[n];
  np = doc.pages.add();
  doc.importAdobeSwatchbookSpotColor ( row.colorName );
  tfo = {
  geometricBounds:[pb[0]+m.top, pb[1]+m.right, pb[2]-m.bottom, pb[3]-m.left],
  contents:row.contents,
  fillColor:doc.colors.itemByName ( row.colorName ),
  tf = np.textFrames.add(tfo);
  doc.pages[0].remove();
createLabels();
Sorry for not using the highlighting code option but it wasn't displaying the whole stuff :\
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