I would like to have a two page Indesign document. First page has text + image and second page has 2 images. The images should come from a csv file that gets data merged with the Indesign document. Is this achievable. I have only been able to do a data merge when I have one page, but then all pages have the same layout. Is this possible and how do I do it? Thanks.
The solution is to work with XML files (File -> Import XML) instead of CSV. You can make any type of document and put XML objects in text fields, images, ... XML is much more flexible than CSV.
a CSV field that is named #photo1 will link to a file location
column F (for instance)
#photo1
c:\foldername\filename.jpg
c:\folder2name\subfolder\otherfile.png
f:\file3.tiff
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Is it possible to add two html string in one page ?
When the pdf is rendered, I can only see the second html. It seems that the first one is overwritten
The only way I have found that you can do this is to add each HTML to its own document then merge both documents together
theDoc.AddImageUrl(Url1);
theDoc2.AddImageUrl(Url2);
theDoc.Append(theDoc2);
What I want is to include an xlsx sheet (or rather the data of said file) into Sphinx documentation.
Is there any way to convert an xlsx sheet to restructuredText?
You do not need to convert it to rst. If you export your xlsx sheet to a comma separated file (csv) you can then use the csv-table directive.
The great thing is that you need to set up your table in your csv only once, and whenever you update your xlsx sheet, just export again to csv to the same location of where your table was before.
.. csv-table:: The contents of my xlsx sheet exported to mytable.csv
:widths: 15 40 20
:header: "Header 1", "Header 2", "Header 3"
:file: mytable.csv
That is all. Add as many widths and headers as you have columns in your file.
Note that in the documentation a security warning is given when using the :file: option. You can choose to copy paste the comma separated text into the document. However, if you update the table regularly I find it easiest to just export again to csv.
I have just released sphinxcontrib-excel, which embeds xlsx, xls and ods data (without style, font, charts) into your sphinx documentation. And you do not need to convert from xlsx to csv because the library does it for it.
Here is an example page where it was used to render excel data in readthedocs.org directly.
I use InDesign CS6, and I have several XML files with the same structure. Only the data are
different.
I created an Indesign layout with some tagged placeholder frames on merge mode, for automated layout.
Today for each XML file I have to create a new InDesign document to import
the XML. Everything works fine. Then in order to have all Indesign
layouts one after the other into a single Indesign layout, I have
to use the copy/paste function.
I mean for example, copy the contents of all documents to the first one. Or add pages of other documents to the first one, then delete spaces between each page.
So my question is the following:
How to repeat this process without copy/paste function, knowing that the
number of XML files could be unknown.
Thank you very much for your answer.
I have several XML files with the same structure. Only the data are different.
I created an Indesign layout with automatic mappings between XML tags and InDesign cells.
Today for each XML file I have to create a new InDesign document to import the XML data. Everything works fine. Then in order to have all Indesign layouts setting one after the other into one single Indesign layout I have to use the copy/paste function.
I mean for example, in page 1 of my Indesign document I need to have the XML content of the first import. In page 2 of my Indesign document I need to have the XML content of the second import, etc....Each Indesign page having the same layout but with different data.
My question is the following:
How to repeat this process automatically knowing that the number of XML files could be unknown
Thank you very much for your answer.
I am checking if a PDF document is searchable if I can get any text from every single page in a PDF.
But checking every page seems to take forever when I am trying to extract text from a PDF that contains more than 500~2000 pages.
Is it possible for a PDF to contain text for one page but not in the rest?
What I am trying to do here is that, if a first page of PDF contains text, then it is a searchable PDF else not..
Yes, it is very possible for a PDF to contain text on one page but not the rest. You could very well have a 500 page PDF that contains images on the first 499 pages, but contain text on the last page.
Unless you want to open the PDF file yourself and scan it for text/text operations, you will need to use an existing third-party PDF library that allows you to extract text from a PDF.
Also, see Ferruccio's response to a related question, which is to use the IFilter interface, specifically made for search indexing and text extraction.
Try this version of Searcharoo, which lets you search Word and PDF documents.