Trying to automate the text & photo import.

[griglygrak]

I'm an IT analyst trying to come up with an automated solution for our graphics department. I have very basic working knowledge of Quark. On a previous project I developed a solution to apply XML tagging to raw text then import the text into Quark using a 3rd party XPress XML Extension. This works fine for formatting text only, however I have no experience with graphics in a Quark document.

Basically I have about 600 real estate listings in a text file, I can again apply formatting using my previous XML solution. I can import the text into a text box with text attributes applied. Each listing is associated with a unique photo that is stored in a known directory. I'd like to also somehow automate the process of placing the photos into a particular page position.

I envision a page containing 2 columns. Left column is pictures of houses. Right column is a text description of the house. Each page will contain 24 different photos and descriptions.

I need to automate the placement of the house photos while ensuring that the text for each house is proper position.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[griglygrak]

I should have indicated that I'm using Qaurk v4.1 and Mac OS 9