3. Idea, to add Autotext/Numbering to Repeater

Idea, to add Autotext/Numbering to Repeater

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    Personaly, i dont need this, but i think it would be very
    useful for all kinds of Numbering and Text label printing.

    When I last showed Victor the distribution function
    in Repeater, an autotext function from a program
    I used for digital printing came back to my mind.

    In the Repeat Funktion of this Program you could enter text lines
    with variables which were then replaced by the text
    from a text file. (per one ore more Lines)

    like so:
    #1

    or so:
    #1
    #2
    #3

    The Textfile:
    SDC Manufacture
    Stamps and Labels
    123455666
    ...

    The Result:
    0_1648722041303_AutoText-3.png

    You could place those Variables on any position
    in a Shape and it could be used to create numbering,
    addresses and label text of all kinds.
    0_1648722104087_AutoText-2.png

    Here a simple sketch for the Repeater addon
    0_1648722181115_AutoText-1.png

    As for the output, the digital printing program could only
    generate files and not send them directly to the printer
    but that was already a great relief.

    When customers wanted numbering, I created it in a
    text editor (NoteTab Light free) who has its own
    scripting language and then loaded the saved text
    file into the program's autotext function.
    But i think Excel or a Program like this will do it also.

    It could looked like this
    or any numbering you choose

    12.1
    12.2
    12.3
    12.4
    12.5
    12.6
    12.7
    etc.

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    @Subpath Added this to the backlog. It will done a bit further down the road (with other repeater improvements).

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    @vectoradmin

    no problem, just wanted to publish this idea

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  • @Subpath and @vectoradmin
    This would be more useful if it's implemented in combination with printing, like CDR has done.

    So on an A3 artboard you would have a label/invoice/receipt duplicated four times where the first one (the master label) includes a special text object (an auto-incrementing number), and when the page get printed the special number will auto-increment on each label duplicate and then on every page printed.

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    @b77

    I thought in my suggestion that saving the result to a file in VS might be easier
    to implement. Of course I would not have anything against both possibilities

    I also know the CorelDraw function. But I would find the possibility
    to save the result as a file would also be useful. So you could also print
    the Results also with other Programs.

    For example, this Composer program was tightly coupled with the printer
    so you couldn't use Coreldraw for printing. But you could import other
    Vectorgraphics formats.

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  • @Subpath 'Print to File' in the Print dialog should take care of that, so you can keep the source file (.vstyler) small and easy to re-edit if needed. 🙂

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    @b77

    That's right, I had forgotten about this possibility.

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