Dero Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Hello everyone, using Affinity Designer, is there a way to assign a list of text snippets to predefined slots? Example: I want to create a periodic table. I would probably use Symbols to design a single element cell. Then I'll duplicate and distribute the symbols ~120× to form a periodic table. Let's assume I already have a list of element names (Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium...) in a text file. Can I somehow instruct Affinity Designer to distribute these element names in order into my ~120 symbols? How would you do it? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted September 7, 2022 Staff Share Posted September 7, 2022 Hi @Dero, 11 minutes ago, Dero said: Let's assume I already have a list of element names (Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium...) in a text file. Can I somehow instruct Affinity Designer to distribute these element names in order into my ~120 symbols? How would you do it? Not using Designer, due to it having no data merge features. Affinity Publisher would be able to do this as it does have data merge, see here for more information on this in Publisher Dero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 Here's one I did earlier. Uses the Data Merge Layout Tool and a spreadsheet with appropriate gaps in the data for the unfilled cells. No need for symbols, the design for the top left cell will be replicated to the others as my numpty example shows. Further embellishment of individual cells can be done on the generated result. Hours of fun PeriodicTable.afpub PeriodicElements.csv Catshill and Dero 1 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 10 Home, Intel i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 1TB Whirlygig, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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