Variable data, text and images in Adobe Illustrator CC

[@PrimoTutorials]

For those who are wondering how to create more useful filenames, like filenames according to your sheet. Go watch my new tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHjQn2Z4ha-be5Y

[@thepiyushkumar]

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

[@sdscode]

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.

[@midorner]

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

[@PrimoTutorials]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@XenoMorph-t9w]

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!

[@elliotbaker3757]

Back here again after several visits to say thank you! I have made 17,000 image mockups using this! Absolute game changer. Thank you

[@PrimoTutorials]

Wow thats a decent project. Glad to be of help!

[@scharyu]

Bro a pure genius. I had to make 250 named badges and instead of filling names manually, I need just a few minutes.

[@PrimoTutorials]

Thanks bro!

[@mleonardgy]

This is such a time saver and removes the likelihood of errors. I watched the video and was cursing you because it wasn't working - then I realized I clicked the wrong button when I was making the text dynamic. :D Good tutorial. Thanks

[@PrimoTutorials]

Always easy to blame the youtube guy haha

[@jasonwarren597]

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

[@DDILOOK-ig2md]

Sir. you saved my life. i almost f**ked up at my office!!! but you saved me. thank you so much!!!

[@andresdearmas2703]

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!

[@kieransimmer]

My problem as well, glad I came by this!

[@Don-xy8cy]

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

[@djh3214]

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

[@floy61]

Thanks Bro. :')

[@RiffHas]

for mac user ?

[@djh3214]

@@RiffHas this is for windows i don't know if it is the same with mac

[@moustaphangom7433]

Tu es le meilleur Même moi qui ne comprend pas l'anglais. J'y suis arrivé Fink you @frome senegal🇸🇳

[@geralddc]

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

[@tonnatang]

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

[@PrimoTutorials]

I will! Thanks

[@valeria_flores]

This is so helpful!!! I work with infographics all the time, and every few months they need to be updated with new data. This will help me save so much time, thank you!

[@PrimoTutorials]

You're welcome! Do you work with graphs as well? Making a new video on that subject soon.

[@valeria_flores]

@@PrimoTutorials Yes, I do actually! 🙂In that case, I'll subscribe and keep an eye open for that video. Thanks!

[@TheWestinHoustonMedCenter]

THANK YOU for making this quick and simple!

[@intricately]

Perfect. Well explained and straightforward. Thank you.

[@renettahill2816]

Great video. You explained everything beautifully and was straight to the point. I greatly appreciate that marked your video in sections so I can go to exactly the part I may need at the time... Other vides are 10-15 minutes long and leave you confused. Thanks for posting awesome content.

[@ChrJahnsen]

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

[@Rafa.mudo.]

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

[@Jysq]

This helped me setting up QR for vendors on an event! Thank you so much!

[@PrimoTutorials]

What did you use to generate the qr?

[@spanno6140]

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 :(

[@deddywirata3719]

you are right, I did not notice this, and as my batch consists of 100 different files, I need to click 100 times :(

[@yutikashindolkar9547]

This needs to be pinned to the top

[@joshuarileymagic]

should have read this! Spent the last few minutes trying to work out why it didn't work properly 😂

[@senthisri4137]

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.

[@whatthevideos4599]

Out of 100 videos ! you are the MAN! such an amazing video simple and very understandable

[@JamiltonMacedo]

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

[@PrimoTutorials]

While I was doing it i already thought that there must be a better way... thanks great tip

[@Spectre968]

Thanks for information, you also saved me :)

[@halizanz]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! so helpful with my 500+ total of certificates!! :))))

[@kristinchaumont1882]

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

[@DigitalDesignDude]

Do the following if you want to make images scale to fit within the area of the original linked image regardless of aspect ratio: 1. Window Tab>Links 2. Select your linked image from the panel and from the top-right 3 dashes menu select "Placement Options" 3. Set the "preserve" option to "Fit" Hope that helps :)

[@jewelramos5677]

thank you so much!! Great tutorial, easy to follow and works like a charm!!

[@howardhamilton3796]

Thanks a bunch, this saved me so much time, very easy to understand, I appreciate it.

[@apokalipsff2687]

Bro did this guy just teach me how to create templates for illustrator that will allow me to double my productivity as a freelance designer?

[@SachinGMantoor]

thanks a lot coz of this tutorial in our company we got new project :-)

[@figNotpig]

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.

[@mohamedmidomido]

many thanks for the fabulous efforts

[@kayrice7584]

This tutorial is extremely helpful, thank you.

[@suhaibhassan9607]

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

[@Eeagli]

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

[@juliethkatherine2780]

Gracias desde COLOMBIA, me ahorraste un fds de trabajo te dejo el like

[@viniciuscunha327]

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.

[@PrimoTutorials]

Thanks for the tip! You can also copy al the paths at ones by holding down shift and rightclick the documents. But I also learned that after this video haha.

[@JigarVavadia]

Very helpful for creating batch Social Media Post.

[@playon_media]

Thank you very much! you save my life, great tutorial and explaination. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@rs9130]

thanks bro. better than scripts i subbed

[@DMH69]

Thank you for posting such important lesson.

[@lankathilina1053]

Amazing tutorial. You saved my hours of work. Thank you so much!!!

[@augustszarins8636]

Hey tnx, I could not figure out the invalid library error, this works now!

[@mail2augus87]

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

[@alanschwarzlopez]

Perfect no BS tutorial

[@gamerapps3025]

Thank you so much I have learning something today

[@harshafartale5775]

Thank you so much for this video!!..It was exactly what I wanted ❤️

[@johnTaylor9760]

Wow, what a great TUT thx a lot your awsome!

[@M-cr5ek]

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.

[@Spectre968]

That was a brilliant informative video. You saved me buddy. Thank you.

[@IllusionSector]

Can't get enough of hearing _Jay-Pekh._

[@fardeenidrishi8446]

Best video no doubt one-stop solution for variables

[@PrimoTutorials]

Thanks man!

[@jedicat-0-0]

WoW! Amazing simple and quick!

[@kneegrow111]

This is a game changer. Thank you so much

[@nguyentramyad2208]

Thank you a lot ! very very helpful

[@dhamp15]

You saved me sooo much time, Thank you!

[@activemotionpictures]

Marvelous video! Thank you so much for sharing this!!

[@michaelswallace6814]

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

[@statikverse]

bloody brilliant man

[@Rocky4u]

you brother have just earned another sbscriber. thank you so much

[@victorhumiso]

This helped me a ton, thank you very much!

[@themaryanjuguna]

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

[@willcat636]

Awesome tutorial! Thank you!

[@JohnBurgermistrdun]

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[@hanaflower3185]

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

[@sebastianmunoz3968]

so can you keep it as a vector? did you find the answer?

[@ondrej-senohrabek]

@@sebastianmunoz3968 you can use .eps

[@zmii-6238]

Use eps or svg

[@manojwc]

Came here by chance, learnt something new..

[@music_joy]

you're the hero

[@paulrozario5516]

Thank for the short and sweet explanation of this process. Helped me for a big personal work :) Is there any kind of data within the pdf that was made with variable data & .csv file which can be used to pull out a .csv from that pdf containing only the text data in the pdf in proper columns?

[@marianazuanetti8911]

thanks for this great video! It helped me a lot! Best regards from Brazil!

[@sofyenalimi9337]

Many Thanks, it was very helpful 😀🙂

[@johnmarstonjack]

Thank you very much!

[@DailyReminder313]

Thanks Bro ....... short and sweet explanation/.............

Mulțumim! Thank you!

[@anaszekri9758]

thanks you saved my time

[@KungFuXiongYouTube]

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

[@PrimoTutorials]

You got multpile options to choose from as explained in the video!

[@master13ird]

I APPRICIATED THIS VDO - THANK YOU

[@alesiagunko6626]

Great video! Thanks! You saved me so much time!

[@renn93]

thank you so much! very cool stuff to learn.

[@XxJakaboobooXx]

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!

[@josemariaacvscorona9278]

Very useful your information thanks

[@rapmaster]

Super helpful. Thank you!

[@spanno6140]

thank you for this video, it was perfectly helpful :D

[@sriramanujdasam7511]

thanks brother, you are life saver

[@sukhrajmomi5779]

MEN YOU SAVED ME THANK YOUUU

[@sivakorn888]

Amazing tutorial, It's work !!

[@tinarahmani6897]

very goooooood🤩

[@laurenbertino5947]

Thank you so much! You're a lifesaver :))))

[@havefun4718]

Thank you!

[@GeneralManager-sk4dr]

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?

[@gabrielamoralesguillaumin2376]

GENIAL Muchísimas gracias pude hacerlo fácil y rápido

Thank you so much for this video!!

[@TWILLIEBILLIES]

perhaps you can use %20 to replace a space in longer pathnames?

[@fiverzone4965]

OMG!!! brother thank you soooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhh

[@vttrung207]

Thanks you sir!

[@michaelccarroll3119]

changed my life! thanks!

[@amityadav2440]

wonderful tutorial 😀