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emailed content with InDesign or InCopy
I work for a newspaper company and we use InDesign to do our layouts.
Now when we are finished we simply copy and paste the text for each story to notepad and save it. then we upload to the web. We are now wanting to add a note in the Indesign layout with an email for the story link to be emailed to when we extract it. I want a way with little steps to make a txt document of the text in indesign. (in the same folder as the file) Then create an email with a preset message. Extract the email address from notes to the "to" field of the email i want to make it automatically add a line to the email with the path of the txt file it just made. ex "email body blah blah blah blah blah blah blah http://www.mywebsite.com" then add in the txt file path "/folder/filename.txt" where folder and filename are the save path of the file created... any ideas? additionally i was toying with the idea of a Form with separeate functions. email,paper,story#,cutline-text,storybody, fields with separate action scripts. 1. to save storybody as filename = "story#.txt" 2. save cutline-text as filename ="story#.cutline" 3. Send mail to: "email" subject="to be determined" body="preset letter" & add "/paper/" & "story#.txt" if you think this would be easier.. i have no problem copy and pasting into this form if it does the rest.. also i thought of excel with formulas for text manipulation but im stuck at the action functions.. so if you know how to save a cell value as a .txt file or assemle an email with this info then that could work too.. Please help.. JM |
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