Using the advanced Illustrator technique, it is possible to output carriage returns in a database. Workaround to handle returns in a database Within the advanced Illustrator technique, it is possible to have a main data file call upon smaller data files saved separately – something not possible in the other techniques. One-to-many database relationship to make graphs Unlike Adobe InDesign, these two techniques can allow a variable data object’s visibility to be turned on or off based on the database. Any live type can also become variable type, meaning that boring old “Dear Your Name” letters are a thing of the past. Photoshop and Illustrator are able to create a wider variety of effects to live type. Once again, another blogger has done the heavy lifting here… check out Daniel Hedrick’s explanation of Data Driven Graphics.
Really? Well, it too has a feature similar to Data Merge, and once again it is well documented on the web, but only when looking for the term “ data driven graphics”. There is another thorough step by step on this procedure by fellow Australian Stephen Marsh of Prepression. The script’s author, Vasily Hall, also writes about how this quite powerful script came to be and shows a real-world workflow.
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He explains the technique in full on his website, but He also has a full course on Linkedin Learning that explains the procedure in thorough detail. This technique is written about in greater detail elsewhere – one piece from John Garrett of Hypertransitory sums it up the best. In a nutshell, the technique involves a javascript from Vasily Hall to use a txt or csv file and then export using a batch sequence, rather than import an XML into Illustrator. Improved Data Merge procedure in Illustrator Nevertheless I persevered and to my surprise, was shown that other Illustrator users were not only using this feature, but had improved upon it. I knew this was something that could be done in Adobe Illustrator, and that Illustrator does have a feature similar to Data Merge, but my experiences with it had been clunky. Lance was more interested in creating perspective text going from left to right, not top to bottom as per the previous example – something that couldn’t be done in InDesign. The technique was one Mike Rankin had demonstrated with live type on a path (chapter 18 of InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic FX). Recently, I was contacted by Lance from Nova Printing in New York, concerning a technique I’d demonstrated but had not provided a tutorial for.
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