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  • January 22, 2016 at 2:43 am in reply to: Multi-page InDesign data merge document with auto page numbering. #81008
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    Hi David. Thanks for your advice. I have cracked it. Turns out the answer is, as you suggested, to save a merged document before out putting the PDF. As I mentioned previously InDesign would crash during the process. After a bit of trial and error I realised that the point it crashed was when I clicked the OK button in the ‘No overset text was generated when merging records’ dialog. Turning off the ‘Generate Overset Text Report with Document Creation’ option seems to have solved this. Not sure if this is a bug but problem solved :-)

    January 20, 2016 at 11:36 am in reply to: Multi-page InDesign data merge document with auto page numbering. #80956
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    I think the crashing my be to do with the size of the linked images. Up to 50 or 60 high res PDFs. Outputs the merged PDF ok and relatively quickly.

    Using this version of InDesign day in and day out to produce super high res large format graphics without any other issues.

    January 20, 2016 at 11:08 am in reply to: Multi-page InDesign data merge document with auto page numbering. #80952
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    Thanks David. Just automatic page numbering – not contained within the data. [current page number] of [last page number]

    It seems I’m unable to save a merged InDesign document as it often crashes so am just linking to csv file, outputting merged PDF, linking to the next csv, outputting next PDF and so on. I have over 100 to do each month so looking to iron out the process.

    I will approach this again in the morning with a fresh set of eyes and try your suggestions. Any more ideas please do let me know.

    October 19, 2012 at 8:53 am in reply to: Live image previews when resizing picture box or scaling. #63407
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    As is always the way as soon as I post i find the answer.

    https://forums.adobe.com/message/4410168

    Phew! relieved it hasn't been removed totally.

    February 3, 2012 at 6:17 pm in reply to: I need to place a series of links at same scale. #61593
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    Someone kindly solved it for me: https://forums.adobe.com/messag…..81#4185081

    Three cheers ;) ;) ;)

    Save me a hell of a lot of work!

    February 3, 2012 at 5:15 pm in reply to: I need to place a series of links at same scale. #61592
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    Script is interesting but doesnt quite meet my specific problem.

    • I have a master page with four picture boxes that require the contents to be linked in at 5% and two picture boxes that require the contents to be lined in at 10%

    • This master page is to be used hundreds of times and I have potential several thousand individual links to bring in.

    • The pages need populating one at a time and links cannot be bought into InDesign en masse and rescaled together.

    Therefore it seems that the scale of the placed content should be set as an attribute of the picture box so that anything linked into it comes in at the pre-assigned scale (that the frame also automatically resizes to the content and maintain it's link to the live caption would be a bonus)

    Looks like it's going to be a bit of a repetetive task to say the least! Is there any commercial plug in that anyone is aware of that preforms this task?

    BTW This would still be a very useful script if it remembered ones settings instead of resetting everytime it's used…

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