SUPER-DUPER Update: I’ve completed a 2.5 hour course on how to use the NEW Variable Importer 8.0 script, and it’s available on Lynda.com! Click to check out more info on the Adobe Illustrator Variable Data Lynda.com course!
And now back to our regularly scheduled blog post…
If you’re familiar with InDesign’s Data Merge, you know how it can take your one design, then “build” the page by creating as many of those designs as it can on your page, at which point it will create a new page and continue building until it has enough pages for all of your data.
Illustrator’s Variable Data feature won’t do this, but we can get pretty darn close by using the Variable Importer script, along with another script by the same developer simply called “RenameArtFromText”.
I made a video for this procedure a long time back (shown above), but I never did officially write it up. So here it is, in case writing it will make it easier for people to find.
For those of you who have no idea what the heck I’m talking about, this article will build on my previous article introducing the Variable Importer script for Adobe Illustrator. If you haven’t already seen that one, go check it out and then get right back here to pick up some more tips.
This method is a little involved at first, but trust me, it can save a ton of time down the line – so hang in there with me for awhile.
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