Automatic insertion in text box?
Hello,
Here is the problem...I have existing .indd document, and it needs to be printed into large number of pdf files. Each pdf file must have different text in one textbox (located in master frame). Is there any way i could automate the process? Not so much for printing, but for automatic insertion of that text line by mouse click/command? I figure that automatic printing would be difficult, since each file goes to different folder...
This would not be the case if it was one time job, but I am doing it manually for a long time, each several days
Thank you for answers
Thank you peter, with Data Merge I have managed to do exactly what I wanted, even easier than i taught it could be done, using Excel
Automatic printing to specified folders and automatic shifting of data fields seems like to complicated, and like something indesign was not designed to do...so it can be skipped Tnx!
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