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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">On 01/04/2008, David Sless
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Add to Rob's un-favourite
tasks, the task we sometimes get: hand
crafting multiple versions of the same document 'just to illustrate'
what each variant will look like. Using software like Quark or InDesign
to do this type of repetitive task can drive one to madness. <br>
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style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Thankfully, some of the
newer software used for driving these dynamic document systems allow
for rapid modification and prototyping, saving us all from these
horrible tasks.</span><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Yes, you are right. Documents
modification just for tests purpose can drive us to madness.
Fortunately, in the last versions, Indesign added some nice resources
to integrate dynamic data through simple databases or XML. You can
populate an TXT file with different data and Indesign loads it and
generate different versions of a document. They can be printed,
exported to PDF or imported by other softwares.<br>
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Ricardo</font><br>
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