My work involves producing unique artwork of a single design. Basically one design with hundreds of variations for each page. My method is very poor, but it works. I’m looking to streamline the process.
Basically I set a master for the design, and then I manually paste-in-place a blank text box on each page (right clicking each page and pasting while max zoomed out, on each page!). For those wondering, this text is related to the design. I love Cats for example.
I then ‘Cut’ from my .txt list and paste into the relevant text box on each page. Again this works, but seems like a huge time vampire. I am pasting each line from my txt list which may be in the hundreds/thousands.
Surely there is a way to grab my .txt lists (my lists are generally single words, maybe two) and PASTE this list and all text boxes would be filled? Ideally the text would scale to the text box’ size (but this is not an issue as I don’t mind manually reducing text size for longer words).
So the questions are:
1. How do I get a blank, EDITABLE text box on each page without me manually placing them? Setting a text box in the master makes it uneditable – I have to shift click to make it editable; almost as annoying as manually doing them.
2. I have single word .txt lists which are broken after each line. Can I paste this list into somehow-threaded text boxes (if I can crack Question 1.)
3. Can the text boxes auto-scale the text size to fit the frame? Would be super handy, but I don’t mind picking out the longer words to manually resize.
If possible, this will save me hours of artworking.
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