Features

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Indys Timer Control Panel

Generating sequences

Indys Number Generator generates sequences within a user specified range.

Kinds of generating sequences:
- all integers within a given range,
- arithmetic sequence of integers with specified increment value,
- geometric sequence of integers with specified ratio,
- random sequence of unique integers selected within a given range,
- random sequence of integers selected from a CSV file - selected members will be converted to integers,
- random sequence of texts selected from a CSV file - members can be any text string and will remain unchanged.

Resulting sequence can be sorted or shuffled.

Sequences selected from a CSV file

Indys Number Generator can load a CSV file as a source sequence. In the dialog window you specify a member separator. Source CSV file can contain not only integers, but even a sequence of text strings. Resulting sequence is generated as a random selection from the source sequence.

Example:
How to generate 3 sequences of 1000 random integers from interval 1-10000? Each integer has to be unique.
Solution:
1. Run Indys Timer Generator, generate 3000 integers as Random Sequence from interval 1-10000 and save it as First_sequence.csv file.
2. Run Indys Timer Generator again, choose Integers Selected from File and choose previously saved First_sequence.csv file as the source sequence.
3. Check Rewrite source file without selected members.
4. Generate 1000 integers and save it as Second_sequence.csv file. File First_sequence.csv now contains sequence of 2000 integers.
5. Run Indys Timer Generator once again, choose Integers Selected from File and choose First_sequence.csv file as the source sequence.
6. Check Rewrite source file without selected members.
7. Generate 1000 integers and save it as Third_sequence.csv file.
First_sequence.csv, Second_sequence.csv and Third_sequence.csv now contain sequence of 1000 unique integers.

Formatting members

Indys Number Generator generates sequences with variable length of members or minimum length of members with specified minimum number of characters and filling character.

You can choose an additional text before and after each member and a separator between members (coma, tab, paragraph, space...).

Example 1:
Geometric sequence, from 4 to 1000, ratio 8, variable length of members, number separator ','.
Resulting sequence: 4,32,256

Example 2:
Geometric sequence, from 4 to 1000, ratio 8, minimum length of members - 4 digits, filling character '0', number separator ';'.
Resulting sequence: 0004;0032;0256

Example 3:
Geometric sequence, from 4 to 1000, ratio 8, minimum length of members - 4 digits, filling character '0', text before 'WIN', text after '-A', number separator ';'.
Resulting sequence: WIN0004-A;WIN0032-A;WIN0256-A

Output

Indys Number Generator puts generated sequence directly into InDesign document or saves as a CSV file.

Now it's easy to create a numbered document with using number sequence saved as a CSV file and the Data Merge feature in InDesign.

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