Variable data, text and images in Adobe Illustrator CC 

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You've saved my life! Thanks to you I finished created 25000 of such files within a few days and without any errors!!

Thanks a Lot! This save me a lot of time for my work! Now I can just set back an wait for the batch to finish 2000 cards that would've take me the whole day to manually type them. Thank you so much!

Great tutorial. straight forward and no extra fluff. Much appreciated!!!

Thank you very much! great explanation. One point: when linking the text to variables, it worked selecting the text with the text tool, not the textbox. Thanks for your help!

this is one of the best video tutorials that I have ever seen related to data - graphics. It is very appreciated, thank you so much.

Great Video! helped me creating a monthly Calendar with different variables. if you want to bulk delete all the imported datasets, you might indeed find that the default functionality only allows for deleting them one by one! So, if anyone want to delete them you can use script function.

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the solution for "The incoming variable library is invalid" is by changing the ( ; ) to ( , ) in the SEPARATED LIST in windowns control panel language and region --- First change the decimal symbole from ( , ) to ( . ) and then the SEPARTED LIST

for anyone that wants an image file instead of pdf, on the batch menu check "override action "Export" on the export folder to save different files, i didnt check and it was just replacing the same img file over and over :(

Great tutorial. I have learnt a lot from this tutorial. I do appreciate your efforts. Keep it up!

Thank you very much for your excellent tutorial. I found it really easy to follow and understand.

Thank you for the tutorial. My texts worked but the image just doesn't change, I did exactly what you instructed. image data column used: C:\Users\61432\Desktop\Icecream2 (no any space) could you advise anything wrong in this? Much appreciated.

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Very helpful for creating batch Social Media Post.

Ok. Honestly, this was the most useful video on Illustrator I’ve seen in the past 10 years. Thank you champ!!

To copy the flag paths, you just select all images, hold shift, right click and select Path Copy

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You can use Dirlister to get list of name of your files in second. I also using Advanced Renamer when I have to remove the black spaces or any symbol in the file name.

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This helped me a ton, thank you very much!

Great video, thank you for taking the time to make it!

Thank you very much!

thanks bro. better than scripts i subbed

Thank you so much. By the way, is there anyway to keep the image as vector still? (Not Jpg / Png). Thanks

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Hi Sirs, if inside the variable data is there some "," commas I've errors during the import of the datas. The commas are necessary because are descriptions of a products (for ex.). Is there other ways to mantain the commas inside the text descriptions? Many thanks!

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Thank you! Great help

What a great tutorial. I wont need to look anywhere else for this topic, you explained it perfectly. Thank you.

Super helpful. Thank you!

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Very well executed guide, my friend. Not too long and not too short.

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Thanks the tutorial is really helpful, but I would like to ask if there's a way to fix the image size problem? As seen in the video all the width of the flag are 1000px, but why when in Illustrator the whole size of the flag keep changing based on the height? Is the anyway to fix this? Thanks

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Very helpful, thank you!

Perfect. Well explained and straightforward. Thank you.

I've use this video every time I need to run variable data and it's worked amazingly until now. I am getting an error I've never seen before and I can't find anything about it on google (the operation cannot complete because of an unknown error [!IMP]) Any ideas?

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Hey great tutorial, but I'm only looking to replace 1 name and when I get to the point to load the variable library it only wants to open .XML file and not the .CSV files, help!

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I use AI 2017, There is no option to choose csv file, just xml file. But if I use the xml file the system is error because the file is invalid, can you help?

What about the UniCode Text ? Its only print English and Number. No Arabic or Chineese data. Kindly correct me if i am wrong .

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Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks! Much appreciated!

Excellent!

I'm importing text from csv file, how do we make font adjust size automatically to fit the text area in illustrator?

Watched many on AI variables & multiple PDF saving, this was the BEST! Tq. You really save me hours of work!!!

Excellent!

This tutorial is extremely helpful, thank you.

Accidentally found this video. It's very helpful. Thank you and please keep making more videos like this!

AMAZING Tutorial! Thank you so much. Exactly what I needed for these custom bingo boards!

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At 4:36 you could have used =CONCATENATE with a little bit of tweaking and you would have finished it in 2 seconds hehe You basically do =CONCATENATE hold CTRL and click on the cells you want to merge the text.

Thanks for the Google Spreadsheet heads up, where were you 5yrs ago...lol

Thank in advance.

Very interesting tutorial, but I have a problem. When I insert the links in the excel table they are not linkable. Why? Thank you

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is it possible to do this using multiple artboards?

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Thank you!

Thank you! Any way to get the data sets to use the field names to create useful file names? Sometimes I swear Adobe is trolling us. So close to being a perfect automated solution...

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wow man you saved me a solid hour of copy pasting names for an event's name tags haha, thanks a lot

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This was incredibly helpful. Is there a way to save the file's title by one of the Varible fields? For example, for the title of the files to be the names of the countries from your spreadsheet?

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Tks!

Thanks for the video! Im the production manager at a sign shop. I've used variables in other software but bossman wants to stick with illlustrator. I"m looking to layout for example 50 6x6 signs on a 24 by 48 sheet. I've made it far enough in this video but am stuck trying to put the layouts on one page. Any Advice!??