Publisher. Any way to mass import images and data?

[l0nglive]

Hi,

i have a project which is a catalogue. I have 3x4 images in one page. I have got the size, positions; and set it up succesfully with GUIDES. I know exactly the dimensions and coordinators of those image in a page layout.

Now I only need to import and place 150 images in there, to fit the grey boxes that the guides drew.

that’s a trouble. Doing it 150 times, by clicking, resizing, and moving to fit the template.

is there a way to auto-fill the images in those grey guide boxes?
 

The images also come with certain tag which has to be copy-pasted on a small text box next to the image. Doing that 150 times is another chore that I cant bring myself to finish.

[walt.farrell]

Rather than drawing Guides you might consider using Picture Frames, which your document pages could inherit from a Master Page.

Then you would be able to use the Place Image Tool, and select a group of images that will appear on the Place Image panel.

At that point you can drag images from the panel onto a Picture Frame, or (if I remember correctly) just click on a Picture Frame with the Place Image Tool to place the next image from the panel onto that frame.

That won't help with your captioning, though.

[l0nglive]

Thank you,

 

I have got it done in 1 evening

The picture frames tool is useful, few clicks to get 1 image done. The tag I hand-typed them, a bit tedious.

 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.