OpenPaths Poster Generator

A script to generate a print-ready poster in InDesign of your OpenPaths location data.

Requirements

You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign installed on your computer, along with the Basil.js library and some OpenPaths data.

• Adobe InDesign http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/indesign.html
• Basil.js http://basiljs.ch/
• OpenPaths https://openpaths.cc/

Setup

1. Download and place the op_poster folder inside the user directory of your Basil.js installation.
2. Download your OpenPaths data from the Openpaths website. CSV or JSON is acceptable.
3. Place your OpenPaths CSV or JSON file in the data folder.
4. Open map.jsx in a text editor and update data_source to the name of your OpenPaths data CSV or JSON file.
5. Create a new A3 document in InDesign with portrait orientation and save it to the op_poster folder. All other settings can be left as default.
6. Run the map.jsx script from the Scripts palette in InDesign.

Example Output

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Alistair McDonald

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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