Harnessing the Power of Text Variables and IDML
This article appeared in Issue 139 of InDesign Magazine.Let InDesign do more of the work for you by harnessing the power of Text Variables—and IDML!
Story time: In 1986, when I was in college, I worked at a weekly newspaper. One week, my boss found that her cataract surgery had been scheduled for production day, and I was suddenly entrusted with laying out the entire newspaper for the very first time in my professional career. I worked hard to make those pages shine. Unfortunately, my beautiful manual paste-up job was compromised by the fact that I inadvertently left the previous week’s folio lines on the pages, meaning that the paper had the wrong date!
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Thanks Jeff. Very in-depth! Not doing regular periodical projects at the moment, but saving the link for the future me.