Hello smart people!
I'm looking for an automated way to use basic Excel data to recolor shape fills in AI. Basically, take a simple data set like this:
| Shape | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1.3 |
| 2 | 4.6 |
| 3 | 7.8 |
| 4 | 3.1 |
| 5 | 9.0 |
And have it drive the color of specifically named shapes similar to this:
The data would correspond to a custom color palette, or just adjust the K value of a specified CMYK color.
Has anyone done something similar? I've looked into Variables and it doesn't look promising. I'm sure it'll take some level of scripting, I just don't have those skillz. Any help would be appreciated, I've got a million data sets to visualize!