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  • In serting a Julian date on master pages

    Posted by Connie Ruhe on January 1, 2012 at 3:44 am

    I work for a small newspaper and one of our master templates needs to contain a Julian date as the edition number. Can anyone tell me how to do this so it updates daily? I’m using InDesign CS5.
    Thanks,
    Connie

    Dwayne Smith replied 14 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Connie Ruhe

    January 4, 2012 at 8:19 pm

    GAH!! **Inserting

  • Dwayne Smith

    January 6, 2012 at 5:27 am

    G’day Connie

    Check out Text Variables under your Type menu.

    You’ll probably first want to ‘define’ your own custom variable — most likely based on the Modification Date default that’s already there (which also lists time down to the minute).

    Then insert your variable into a text frame on the master page and style it the way you would any other text.

    Hope that helps

    m.

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