Hello everybody,
as you can see in the picture, I have to lay a list of lecturers with photo and title: I would normally set up a table, since the titles can differ much in lenght from one another; the problem is: I must update the list almost daily and copy-pasting every lecturer in the following or preceding cell takes too much time.
- Pasting multiple text frames inline won't work because the frames should be aligned on top, while inline frames (with different heights) lie on the bottom edge;
- Data merge doesn't help either: that would produce text frames with the same heights;
- I tried the script CSVtoTables but it only works with the antire row, and I need the data to be repeated in every cell.
Any help would be very appreciated!
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I think your "inline frame" theory is worthy of pursuit.
I would do it with a 2-column text frame on each page, with an anchored text frame for each lecturer. I would set up an Object Style for the anchored frames that sets the Anchored Object Options to "custom" with the reference point at top-left, relative to the column edge...
...and the Auto-Size options set to Height Only, top-down.
Thanks for the quick reply.
That won't resolve my issue (already tried): I would need a blank paragraph every row to span the columns and create a new line (the lecturers go left to right, top to bottom); furthermore, the text frames would overlap themselves after the first two.
That's similar to what I'm doing right now:
Thanks for the reply, InlineMerge is a great script and I use it regularly, but it won't help in my case, since the frame have different heights and I'd have to move them down every time I do the merge.
Eventually I went with @John Mensinger's solution: I only have to drag down the new inserted frame so that it aligns with the other ones; and I just used a single column frame instead of two columns frame.
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