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    • March 28, 2013 at 2:46 am #64514
      Anonymous
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      Hi,

      please any one help for me.

      I'm using data merge option in indesign cs4. while create pdfs i got the merged pdf file.

      but i need split up pdfs.

      for example:

      first page: image linked

      second page: image + data merged (some fields add from data file (.csv))

      third page: data merged.

      fourth page: image linked

      for above file while creating pdf i got the one pdf pages around 800-1000.

      but i need each data as a seperate file.

      like if i have 20 rows of data in csv file means, i need 20 pdfs.

      please advise/help.

      thanks in advance.

    • March 28, 2013 at 7:37 am #64516
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I believe Acrobat can help. See the comments after this blog post: https://creativepro.com/spl…..-files.php

    • March 28, 2013 at 11:03 pm #64521
      Colin Flashman
      Member

      It's a bugbear of mine – Data Merge can't write to individual or fixed page length PDFs from the data merge panel. This CAN be done if exporting to InDesign files, but exporting to 800 individual indesign files? No thanks!

      However, there are workarounds. The first one requires merging to one large PDF and then running an acrobat javascript. See this post on the Adobe forums for the “how-to”:

      https://forums.adobe.com/message/4633533

      The second workaround uses one of two scripts. It requires merging to one large InDesign file and then running an InDesign javascript. See this post on the Adobe forums for the “how-to”:

      https://forums.adobe.com/message/5166720

      Both scripts provide an opportunity to break the long file based on a variety of variables. It is worth noting that this solution has more application than simply breaking a data-merged file up into smaller PDFs, but also any large document that has to be broken into smaller segments.

      One of the scripts can be found at https://www.loicaigon.com/en/pd…..rly-named/

      The other script can be found at https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1014766 (link within the Adobe forum) – this one however is in German

      However, it would be nice if data merge just did this without having to resort to workarounds… – sigh – .

      Colin

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