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new to scripting, is this possible?

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    • September 22, 2010 at 4:30 pm #57081
      Sarah H
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      I have a book of regulations that is printed annually (CS4 Mac, book file containing many documents). Periodically throughout the year we publish a pdf “update” that includes any regulations that have changed since the last printing. We have always handled the update as a separate unrelated document, but I am looking to automate this process. I'd like to keep the book files up-to-date and when it is time to publish an “update” automatically pull the items that have been changed into the update InDesign document.

      Thoughts?

      If I added an XML tag to the items I want, would it be possible to have a script that would pull those tagged items into another document?

      I have never really done anything with scripts, but I'm interested and a quick study! Thanks for any ideas. I'm willing to do research and figure stuff out, but wanted to see if I was even headed down the right road.

    • September 23, 2010 at 5:00 pm #57103
      Theunis De Jong
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      It probably can be scripted, but it'd still need some manual tidying up.

      Perhaps you could mark the 'updates' in the real text with Conditions — these are visible in your InDesign document, easy to insert (rather than XML), invisible in all output, and a script can gather all text marked with some condition and copy it into a new document.

      It's also possible to automatically add a source page number to the copied fragments.

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