OK, so this doesn't have much to do with Wedding photography. But I'm hoping some folks with InDesign knowledge can help me out.

We've been working on a Church Directory for a few months and have been having a terrible time getting the software from the publisher to work. I'd like to use a "real" page layout program as it would (hopefully) work better. I know they can print from a PDF.

Is there a way to have InDesign look at a tab-delimeted (or comma or whatever) file and insert appropriate data into a template? Like say I have a file with names addresses, image file names, phone numbers, etc. I want InDesign to look at that file and automatically lay out the pages. I'd rather not spend a ton of money on it (of course).

Thanks.

Adam,

I've imported tab delimited and excel files into indesign and the data can appear in a table. Then you can style and manipulate the table as needed. Not sure if this helps out with the template that you are talking about, but that is the only way I've imported data in the past.

Jan

hi adam,


if you ar elooking for cheap programs tht do this, indesign is great but its super expensive. i know in the US u can get it cheaply bt only if u get the church to buy it.

www.techsoup.com offer super cheap prices on all software for macs and windows but only for NGO+non profit organisations, u can only purchase something once, but buy as much as u want. for example the adobe web bundle, cs2 suite+macromedia 8 suite costs 160$. although if ur on a mac maybe its best wait until april when the new cs3 and macromedia suite 9 will be launched.