* - Does not expand wider than the page widthĮxpandFrames(app.activeDocument, /\bexpandFrame\b/i) Īpp.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Expand Labelled Frames') * - Label can contain other text as well as "expandFrame" * an attempt to fit first paragraph of text frame in one line. * Expands width of text frames having label "expandFrame" in It won't always work, but it should work whenever the datamerge is expecting a single line paragraph. I've written a script that just expands the width of any text frame marked with the script label "expandFrame" until the first paragraph fits. Perhaps Kahrel day or other good scripters can help here. I might be able to be scripted I don't know it's way beyond what I'm capable of. You're probably right when there's a frame break character then it should treat each line of the paragraph separately and expand the frame then move to the next line/frame and treat that separately.
It can't expand the frame to fit as the text has not been imported, when it imports the text it flows, and then expands the text. In light of this - I can't think of a workaround that would make InDesign reorder the order it merges then expands. Then it auto expands the text frames - after the import of textīut at this stage the column break has already moved ot the 2nd frame due to the import of the data merged text.
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It appears it first imports the text from the data merge, which then flows the text to the next frame - which is correct, in a way. How to use Data Merge in InDesign - Tutorial - YouTube Whether you are making a business card, name tag or anything else requiring the same layout with different inputs, data merge could.
Is there something I'm missing or another way to do this? If I have to rearrange my data, is there any way I can take the three columns of data in an excel sheet and redistribute it across 15 rows?Īlso, I'm not interested in a $129.99 addon if that is what you're recommending.So sorry for asking for that twice - I didn't realise it was already provided, problem looking on the phone. Also, I have over 600 pieces of data that I would then have to go and reorganize if that is the only way to get data merge to import in rows. I did notice that if I went in and reorganized the data so that there were 15 columns, with these three placeholders repeated five times, and then used that data source, the data merge would then import correctly, but that seems really cumbersome and counterintuitive for data organization. Now, I have my data source organized so that there are just three columns: the first is my the second is the first name, and the third is the last name. I have selected the option "arrange by rows first" but it still doesn't work. Every time I go to data merge and use the multiple record layout, it is placing one student's photo at the start of every row and leaving the rest of the row blank. I need to import the photos so that they are arranged in five columns and six rows, and arranged alphabetically by row. I am designing a yearbook, and I am trying to use data merge to import student photos.
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