Illustrator Variable Data - The EASY way!

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Recommends vortexxx192 · 2016-06 · Graphic Design Stack Exchange · on “Illustrator plug-in to create artboards from Excel file”

Ended up with built-in Illustrator functionality, that is described in details in this video [this video] . Have checked, it works.

Recommends Silly-V · 2016-07 · Graphic Design Stack Exchange · on “Illustrator plug-in to create artboards from Excel file”

You can use a script to import data from csv file, but you would have to do some action-engineering when batch-processing the data to do your extra stuff. After data is imported, it's inside the AI document as variable datasets. You batch-process the datasets using the Batch command inside the Actions flyout menu. Then, the fun part is to rig an action to create your artboards. It can be done by pasting a rectangle and converting to artboards. You can also have a max of 100 artboards in a single document. Learn about the script here: [this video]

Recommends Silly-V · 2018-01 · Graphic Design Stack Exchange · on “Creating dynamic page variables for a statewide report”

You can use Adobe Illustrator's Variables feature along with the VariableImporter.jsx script to bring in variable text content, images, graph data as well as visibility variables. Here's where you get the script: [LINK] You can view a video here for the script's usage: [this video] And see my own interactive variable result sample here: [LINK] Read the description here: [LINK] For the announcement when the VI script began to support graphs, here's that article: [LINK] Sounds like an interesting report!

Recommends Silly-V · 2018-06 · Graphic Design Stack Exchange · on “Create multiple playing card designs with variable text data”

While InDesign is a superior data-merge application, Illustrator or Photoshop variable-features could also be useful to you - depending on some special strengths each of the applications. For example, Illustrator has powerful dynamic appearance features, such as being able to create a curved-corner rectangle stroke around a textframe which grows or shrinks with how much text is inside. I at least have some experience with Illustrator, you may be able to find Illustrator-centric information at this video here: [this video]

Cites Silly-V · 2017-10 · Graphic Design Stack Exchange · on “Multi-layer asset management in studio environment”

Have you looked into using Variable Data for Adobe Illustrator [this video] ? (See link of explanatory video) The thing about this approach is that there's really no automatic update without a user action to effect the process- mainly they have to go through a dialog box and update the files. I think this would be the case in any such workflow, where graphic files are changed: you'd have to at least open the files and have your Illustrator save them after they are changed. However, there's an advantage to using Illustrator variable data and actions: you can change your document in many ways by just switching/importing a dataset and using an action which can play a custom script, to further manipu

Cites mellow · 2018-03 · Graphic Design Stack Exchange · on “How to merge multiple files to one, placed next to each other in Illustrator CS6”

I have a bunch of QR codes and a bunch of serial numbers associated with these codes. I need to print a lot of tickets, each having a different QR code and corresponding serial number on them. So far I had success to generate those tickets, by using variables and datasets, with help of this awesome tutorial [this video] and the script mentioned in it. I end up with hundreds of files, each having one artboard, with one ticket in it. What I need is a file with artboards of A3 size, so I can create a PDF file with multiple pages for print. Obviously, on each of these A3 artboards should be as many tickets as possible.