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    • September 28, 2023 at 12:05 pm #14396161
      Denis Balin
      Participant

      Hi everyone,
      Does anyone know if there is a way to use indesign snippets as an image with data merge?
      Putting the directory path of the snippets in an Excel column with the header : @image
      Thanks for your help

    • September 29, 2023 at 12:30 am #14396225
      Steve Davis
      Participant

      not for that but i have had some success with https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2014/06/24/peoples-choice-indesign-script-pepcon-2014-replace-words-images-vice-versa/

    • September 29, 2023 at 7:11 am #14396227
      Mike Rankin
      Keymaster

      If there’s one person in the world who can answer your question, it’s Colin Flashman https://colecandoo.com

    • September 29, 2023 at 9:39 am #14396245
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      I would apply the data merging on just the .idms files name as:

      @<<idms>>@

      The .txt source file would be:

      idms
      xxx.idms

      The data merging would give:

      @xxx.idms@

      Then a simple Script would import the .idms inside the InDesign doc.

      (^/) The Jedi [who is not Colin Flashman]

      • October 2, 2023 at 5:36 am #14396271
        Mike Rankin
        Keymaster

        Okay, make that TWO people in the world. Thanks, Michel.

    • October 7, 2023 at 9:31 am #14396441
      Lukáš Záleský
      Participant

      i have my own tool for this,
      this script will get informations from excel, write it to the idms (xml) file and then load modified snippet to the place gun. Then i am using my layout tool window for place the snippets where a want.
      it can by modify to place at precises coordinates on the page.

      video here:
      https://www.uschovna.cz/zasilka/MZ7H2RHJYME9JKNK-8M3/

      @DTPtutorialyCZ

    • November 4, 2023 at 11:37 am #14397030
      Colin Flashman
      Member

      Sorry I’m late to the party everyone.

      The opening poster did contact me directly, but can share the following information. This was given to me by one of the InDesign developers some time ago, but not a lot has changed (with the exception of being able to import HEIC and SVG). Their response is as follows:

      _____________

      I just double checked and found that any file that can be imported (File > Place) into InDesign are supported via Data merge. The image type supported for ID 14.0.2 are:

      PNG
      PSD
      PDD
      PCX
      BMP
      RLE
      GIF
      SCT
      CT
      TIF
      TIFF
      JPG
      JPEG
      JPE
      PCT

      We also support and Data Merge is widely used for vectors like:

      AI
      EPS
      PDF
      Having said that, please note that some other file types can also be imported into InDesign (hence can also be used in Data Merge). There isn’t an explicit support for them, but they should organically work.

      IDMS: IDMS is not an importable file format but rather a group of different items which can be created/placed in InDesign. By this I mean that when an IDMS is bought into InDesign it, it break into its more granular level placing each of the asset which constituted it. Hence what user is seeing is correct and expected.
      Text-file: They also are not image formats and hence will not work.
      Multi page documents/artworks: Yes only first page gets imported via Data Merge
      ______________________

      HTH

      Colin

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