Re: Data import to QuarkXPress

Neil Gould wrote:

> Recently, ir2000@xxxxxx <ir2000@xxxxxx> posted:
>
> >> Are you trying to put each record into its own box?
> >
> > No, I am trying to put each record on exactly one page. A record
> > consist of 101 fields but not all fields are used for every record
> > (e.g. not every record has "name" and "name2" field filled since there
> > is no 2nd name for this entry). I had to include conditional clauses
> > to exclude paragraphs with empty fields but some records have more
> > detailed information than the average record and therefore they get
> > more paragraphs than the number of paragraphs that would fit into the
> > box.
> >
> >> With the "one box" approach, it is easy to scan through the document
> >> after the import and adjust any overflow.
> >
> > It would be nice to have only one box but I am the software engineer
> > who tries to accomplish the import of data not the layout man who
> > created that layout. I have to ask if this would be possible.
> >
> >> Perhaps if you can post a picture of what you are trying to do, we
> >> can help.
> >
> > http://home.arcor.de/ir2000/dataimport.jpg
> > The picture box are not static, i.e. there can be different pictures
> > in each box therefore I need to apply the correct pictures to each
> > record, with xdata this works fine.
> > Note that the bottom picture has a text box on it.
> > After the first "name" paragraph there could be a second one for the
> > "name2" field with a 2 pt smaller font size.
> > I hope this helps to understand the problem.
> >
> From the looks of your dataimport.jpg, it appears that you need to import
> one or a short set of records into a text box. If I understand the
> problem, some of your records have more text than will fit into the boxes,
> and thus overflow into other text boxes. If this is the case, it's a
> conceptual problem with the layout, and I can't think of a way that you'll
> correct this without some fairly sophisticated programming. As I see it,
> what needs to be done is the text needs to be sized according to the
> amount that has to fit into a box. Perhaps an xdata specialist can be of
> more assistance by way of identifying whether that app is up to that task.

In TeX it isn't too hard to do. Measure the amount of matter to set and
then shrink to fit.

Whether the stuff fits in the box it won't reflow, unless you use some
really ropey macros.

> If I were to undertake this kind of work, I would use a technical
> publishing application, such as TeX (for a completely automated build) or
> Framemaker for a programmable / interactive build. Either of these could
> accomplish what you're trying to do.

TeX should do it unattended. I have some intranet sites (i.e. we can safely
ignore some security holes) where some PHP and MySQL provides the galleys
and calls TeX to do some setting. They have yet to fail.

Eric
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