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General Category => General Prepress => Topic started by: Santa on October 23, 2015, 08:07:55 AM
Might have already been posted...but great site for generating a list of sequential numbers for use in data merge...i.e ticket numbering. Saved me a whole lot of time.
http://textmechanic.com/Generate-List-of-Numbers.html
That is handy. Pinned so it doesn't get lost.
Wow, faster than opening Excel & doing it locally! Thx man - Bookmarked. :banana:
Nice.
We got a job in last month for Table Number Cards for a restaurant - 45 each of 1-70. I just set up the BG on the master page in InDesign with a text box set to Page Number, then added 70 pages. Job done. PDF to step em up and on to the next job.
We have a utility to add sequential numbers to a many-up sheet of eg concert tickets which works with PDFs but I have done concert tickets with the page number dodge in the past.
Can also be done in Illustrator using a script that will add a sequential numbers on a step and repeat.
A different Illustrator script can do this via variable data merge and batch saving of 1 up files (which would then require imposing)
So many options, so little time to get the work out the door!
If I am doing it with a data merge I just add the numbers to the excel file and merge it with everything else.
For ticket numbering I use a free app called easynumbering, very easy to use and works well for properly numbering and stacking a job.
FusionPro does it just fine, but no longer my concern