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How do I print an Illustrator document with sequenced numbers?

Asked by Breefield (2733points) December 4th, 2009

I’m creating tickets for a party at my school. The tickets need to be numbered 1 to 200, and I’m designing them in Illustrator.
Is there any way to put in a “placeholder” text box that I can have Illustrator populate with the numbers 1 to 200? Otherwise I’m going to end up going through and numbering these by hand…

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ParaParaYukiko's avatar

That sounds like programming type stuff to me, which (to my knowledge) Illustrator doesn’t do.

However, there may be a way to do this in InDesign (another Adobe product), since it is oriented towards designing pamphlets, newspapers, and other type things. If you have access to that program, I might suggest trying that out instead.

jrpowell's avatar

I’m not sure how to do it in Illustrator. But you could do it with something like rmagick. It would be pretty easy if you know Ruby and rmagick. If you don’t and it is only to 200 by hand would be a lot faster.

cbleslie's avatar

Use in-design, and make use of the “page number” counter and reformat it to your liking.

Naked_Homer's avatar

May I ask how the design is set up such that it couldn’t be brought into In-design, put on the master page and then, as @cbleslie said, page number counter it?

Do you not have In-Design?

Breefield's avatar

I have inDesign, and I can certainly move it over there. But I’ll need 12 “page numbers” per sheet of paper, the tickets are going to be in two columns of 6, so as to conserve paper.

Naked_Homer's avatar

hmmmm, thinking….

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