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June 5, 2013
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How can I save individual merged records automatically in seperate folder?

  • June 5, 2013
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I have several hundred records to pull in via a mailmerge.

one record per page and one per document.

I can do the merge fine, however at present it just keeps all of the records open until I save them which means I can only do these in batches else indesign crashes.

Is there a way I can get indesign to automatically save each individually merged record into a seperate folder? Ideally naming the saved document after two of the fields so the naming convention would be <<id>>-<<name>>

I've seen some stuff about scripting being available to indesign and I don't mind doing the reading and putting in the work to make this happen  - Can anyone point me in the direction of any scripting for indesign quickstart type guides or offer up any other suggestion of how the above may be achieved.

Many Thanks

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Peter Spier
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June 5, 2013

This is beyond the capabilities of Data Merge, but it might be scriptable, so I've moved your question into the scripting forum.

Colin Flashman
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Community Expert
June 7, 2013

There are a couple of ways that this could be done but it involves scripts. See the following adobe forum posts:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5193375#5193375

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5159865

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!