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September 7, 2016 at 1:18 am #88188Riccardo RiguzziMember
Hi all,
I’m working on a catalogue divided mainly in 2 parts:
the first part has a really long table with thousand of lines with “item description” – [item code] etc…
the second part is a gallery of technical drawings like this: [drawing item code] and below the imageI’ll need to insert a cross reference from every instance of every [item code] (items can be repeated several time) to the matching [drawing item code] page number.
How can I do it without having to make it manually or making one x-ref manually and then copy paste it to every instance of the same code (and then again with next code and again ’till I drop dead)?
Is there a way to use some kind of script?Every [item code] inside the table share a same paragraph style and the same character style
Every [drawing item code] for the drawing gallery share a same paragraph style (different from the [item code]) -
September 7, 2016 at 6:08 am #88191Michele JaroszMember
I know nothing about this–but I would probably do it the hard way and drop dead.
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September 7, 2016 at 6:23 am #88193Riccardo RiguzziMember
also another question…
I need to replace all the codes I put in a table with other codes, is there a simple way to do it?
The codes are a direct match like:OLD NEW
0001 AXCK1
0002 PKLM3
0003 QWSW2
0004 CDK12 -
September 7, 2016 at 8:19 am #88197David BlatnerKeymaster
For the batch find/change, you might want to use a tool such as MultiFindChange from automatication.com
For the cross-references, there are some scripts to make the cross-references, such as:
https://creativepro.com/create-a-cross-reference-quickly-with-this-free-script.php
and then you could probably copy and paste the x-ref text.There are also some powerful x-ref tools in Cross References Pro: https://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=crin&more=downloads (but I don’t know if it will do what you want)
What you’re describing is often done with commercial catalog tools, such as Teacup DataLinker, 65bit EasyCatalog, Em Software’s InCatalog, and so on.
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September 7, 2016 at 8:53 am #88198Riccardo RiguzziMember
thanks a lot!
Right now I managed to replace the codes using the find/place by list script delivered with inDesign
It took just a while to write the code using some lists from excel and text wrangler to copy/paste everything with the right format.I check immediately the free script you linked!
Cheers!
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