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• • November 16, 2015 at 5:44 am #79465
    Christophe Huget

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    Hello Everybody,
    I’m Christopher and super new to this forum, I’m web-designer, so inDesign’s not my everyday-tool. This is why I need some help.
    I have this pricelist I need to produce in inDesign. Around 40 pages. The idea is to show a list of products in columns (1 column = 1 product), each row will be a characteristic of the product (width, height, depth…price…).
    Previous years I use to make list in the other way : 1row = 1 product. So, on 40 pages, I used to link block texts between them and my big 1 table was crawling through them repeating headers on every pages.

    This year, my client want to change that but I don’t know how to create a table within a text block that will show only 9 columns per page and show the rest into the next pages.
    I don’t know if I’m clea enough. The number of rows of the table would be always the same, but the number of columns will vary.
    How can I do that?

    The final idea is to data merge a csv with all datas. Each row of the csv will create a new column to my inDesign table.

  • November 17, 2015 at 7:27 am #79474
    Chris Thompson

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    What if you…
    – set the document up with the “wrong” page orientation (landscape for portrait and v.v.)
    – set the table up with the rows as the columns, and the columns as the rows BUT the top row of this table has the column names (product characteristics) *in reverse order* with the right-most column having the list of product names
    – don’t allow cells to break across pages
    – set the first row as a header row to display on all pages (if required)
    – rotate all the text in the table 90°
    – Print to PDF but impose the pages “the other way round”

    This way, the table extends across multiple pages, and the final column widths (actually row heights) can be adjusted as you wish.

    Hard to explain without a sample, so for 7 days only, my test file is on WeTransfer at https://we.tl/vfFlrN6f5X.

    Good luck,
    Chris.

  • November 17, 2015 at 8:01 am #79477
    Christophe Huget

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    Discussing about it with a friend, we went to the same idea. But, intellectually, even if I understand the idea, I can’t visualize it. I have to try.
    Thanks a lot, I’ll try to follow your idea to figure it out.
    Chris 2.

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