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• • August 20, 2011 at 9:45 am #60335
    sebstck

    Member

    Hello guys,

    I looked for that on google for hours but did not find anything, i guess i did not use the right keywords.

    Is it possible to define a variable representing 20 days after the output date.
    If today we are the 2011 08 20, it would get the output: 2011 09 09

    Something like yyyy MM dd+20.

    Any help would be more than appreciated!

  • August 20, 2011 at 2:54 pm #60337
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    No, cannot be done with text variables. Sorry!

  • August 20, 2011 at 4:10 pm #60339
    John Hawkinson

    Member

    Err, are we talking about text variables, or Javascript variables in scripting, or something else entirely (VB? Applescript)?

    If we're talking about a scripting language, just add 20*86400 to the number of seconds. Exactly how depends on the language.

  • August 20, 2011 at 11:58 pm #60341
    sebstck

    Member

    Thanks for your answers.

    That´s a shame it cant be done with text variable as it would be something quite handy for some ppl i guess.

    Anyway, is there a kind of plugin to do such a thing on indesign. I never used scripts on it before.

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