To Preview Or Apply A Data Set; To Preview Data-Driven Graphics In Imageready; Saving Templates For Use With Other Adobe Products - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

You can edit, rename, or delete the data set later by first choosing it from the Data Set pop-up menu and editing its
options. Use the arrow icons to move between data sets. Click the Delete icon to delete a data set.
See also
"Importing data sets from external files" on page 752

To preview or apply a data set

You can apply a data set's contents to the base image while leaving all the variables and data sets intact. This changes
the look of the PSD document to contain the values of the data set. You can also preview how each version of your
graphic will look with each data set.
Note: Applying a data set overwrites your original document.
Choose Image > Apply Data Set. Select the data set from the list and preview the image in the document window.
To apply the data set, click Apply or OK (ImageReady Windows). Click cancel if you are previewing and don't want
to change the base image.
You can also apply and preview a data set in the Data Set page of the Variables dialog box.

To preview data-driven graphics in ImageReady

Preview Document mode lets you preview how a template will look when it is rendered using different sets of data.
Enable Preview Document mode:
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Choose Image > Preview Document. A check mark appears next to the command when Preview Document mode
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is enabled.
Click the Preview Document button in the tool box.
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In the options bar, choose a data set from the Data Set pop-up menu, click the Previous Data Set button
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click the Next Data Set button
The data changes in the document window.

Saving templates for use with other Adobe products

You can save a template in PSD format for use with other Adobe products, such as Adobe Graphics Server (available
only in English) and Adobe GoLive. For example, a GoLive user can place a PSD template in a page layout, bind its
variables to a database using dynamic links, and then use Graphics Server to generate iterations of the artwork.
Likewise, a developer working with Graphics Server can bind the variables in the PSD file directly to a database or
another data source.
For more information on using PSD templates to create data-driven graphics, see Adobe GoLive Help and the Adobe
Graphics Server Developer Guide.
To generate graphics using data sets
After you define variables and one or more data sets, you can output, in batch mode, images using the data set values.
You can output images as PSD files. In ImageReady, you can also generate optimized GIF or JPEG files or SWF files.
1 Choose File > Export > Data Sets As Files.
Enter a base name for all files generated. You may create your own file-naming scheme if you want.
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