Quick help

[tpk1982]

Hi All,

Need a quick clarification. I need to get the data from my google sheet to Indesign. I meant the live updates.

I know we have DocsFlow plugin, but it is too costly for me. Is there anything we can do?

Thanks,

K

[AnneMarie Concepcion · Accepted solution]

I don't know of any way to that, unfortunately. I was going to suggest placing from your synced local Google Drive folder, but the only time ID will recognize those .gdoc files is if you have the DocsFlow plugin installed. Otherwise they're an unknown file type.

You could of course export files from Google Docs as RTF or Word docs or something, but then you lose the Live aspect.

I use DocsFlow for various projects and it has saved me WEEKS of time, and made the clients very happy, all of which translates to dollars in my pocket (and the client's, too; as not using live linked GoogleDocs would've resulted in a higher project cost for them).

If at all possible, use the plugin.

AM

[tpk1982]

Thanks AM and BobLevine for your valuable suggestions. Except the Live aspect is there any other option we have like datamerge or linking the placed file?

[BobLevine]

Not really. You could switch to an InCopy workflow but without knowing exactly how things are done it's difficult to say whether or not that's going to help you.

[BobLevine]

Sometimes you need to figure out what it costs NOT to buy something.

[Srishti Bali]

Hi tpk1982,

You may get some more plugin related help on our  InDesign SDK  forum.

Regards

Srishti