Data Merge - Creating Separate Documents

Question

Is there a way to create separate InDesign documents for each record/row of a data source (.txt) document? Currently, if I have multiple rows, it creates a single document with all those pages within it. I'd like each row to create a separate InDesign document.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

This is possible.In the window "Create merged document" > Options enable the "Record limit per document" and set the number to "1".Each record becomes a document of its own.I hope you don't want to merge 200 records with 1 click, because InDesign doesn't save and close the files. Fenja

Colin Flashman · Answer

Fenja's answer is certainly correct, but it will result in all of the filenames being called FILENAME-n (where n represents the order of the resulting record). Not catastrophic, but if the OP was creating business cards individually, then each file would have to be renamed at some point. This only works for INDD files as well, not PDF.

I made a script back in 2015 that will do this not just for INDD files but PDFs as well, and it's free:

https://colecandoo.com/2015/09/04/data-merge-from-indesign-to-unique-filenames-now-a-reality/

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