Hello all!!
I have spent hours, now day reading about GREP and now scripting(Extend script) inside Indesign. Awesome stuff…
I have a client who wants me to add 4 or 5 variable data fields to a layout(Data merge) Then they want to automatically specify a set of specific colors for the “variable message” text based on a predetermined color palette.
This is an example of the data flowing in (simplified)
MESSAGE COLOR ID# PART#
This is message 1 color 1 0100011 A020005
This is message 2 color 2 0100012 A020006
this is message 3 color 3 0100013 A020007
this is message 4 color 4 0100014 A020008
this is message 5 color 5 0100015 A020009
I was thinking of labeling the text frames I want to change in the “script label” window. I could create 5 paragraph styles that would contain the colors.
I need help creating a script(InDesign 5.5) that could find only the “labeled” text frames and apply a paragraph style based on the COLOR field in the .csv data.
Any help is appreciated. I am digging thru the scripting references and DOM now…I am not really sure about the applying style based on variable COLOR data thru .csv- I haven’t seen anything like that around.
Could anyone help me out? I am not sure if there is a way to do this without a script, I couldn’t find one yet. I have very limited scripting experience but, I know InDesign well.
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