About Julian

I am an Interactive Art Director in St. Louis, MO. I am interested in all levels of technology.

Helping Threadless automate their printing

This thread is asking for help automating printing and using Data Merge with Adobe InDesign (CS5), here it is.

First download threadless.zip

Edit data.csv as needed, open template.indd and choose Window>Data Merge from the menu. (Adobe Docs)

Click the little “Merge Documents” icon in this panel. It spits out an .indd with a page for each set of data.

Obviously for testing I didn’t set up nice fonts, etc. but you get the point. Read thru the Adobe Docs for the extra details.

Thanks to my lovely wife Kassie for pointing me in the right direction.

Quick Discount Calculator – DisCalc

I’ve whipped up a quick little web app called DisCalc. Visit it here: http://juliankussman.com/discalc/

Enter an item’s cost, click the discount button (common percentages plus enter your own custom). Click ‘Add to list’ to add it to your running shopping total.

You can save this to your iPhone’s home screen to use it without Safari chrome. I’ve also implemented HTML5 localStorage to allow saving your running total between launches/restarts.

Have fun :)