Mail Merge in Acrobat 9 Professional?

[Guest]

Hi, All!

I have been told that I can perform a mail merge similar to MS Word from within Acrobat Pro 9. The main document (with merge type fields) needs to be an Acrobat .pdf. The data source can come from an external file. The key is that the merge is performed in Acrobat, not Word.

I have searched throughout Acrobat Pro 9 but have found no functionality that matches my needs. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks for any help on this!

Christina

[soberoi]

Hi Christina,

You can use mail merge from Acrobat with your Word files. Just create a mail merge document as you would for your MS Word mail merge doc and use the Mail Merge option from the Adobe PDF menu inside word.

Let me know if this doesn't work for you.

-sachin

[Guest]

See these docs are already in PDF. These are court legal docs. I don't want to have to re-create the docs in word. Courts will not except them unless they're exactly the same. So I'm a little confused. I'm familiar with coverting Words docs to PDF however these doc are already in PDF with field and I want to do exactly what MS Word does but on a PDF doc.

[Jannae72]

I am after the exact same thing.  My application form is already a pdf document but need to create a mail merge using data from a word doc and merging into the pdf document.

Can anyone help us

Cheers

Jenny

[soberoi]

I am afraid that there is no way that i know in which you can mail merge a PDF document and fill the form fields. But what you can try is -create a batch process which will import the fdf to the PDF form and then email it. This might work.

[agsmth]

I just found this add on .  It's $149 from an outside company but it

will do a mail merge.

http://www.evermap.com/automailmerge.asp

[allen_kat65]

Just figured out how to merge Excel data into an Adobe Acrobat PDF with form fields! This will only works for 1 document at a time though, so it's not really a mail merge, but still better than nothing.

1. Create PDF from Word, Indesign or whatever you prefer to use.

2. Create you form fields as you normally would.

3. In the appropriate form field, type the name that corresponds with your Excel heading    <Form Field Name>

4. Save your Excel spreadsheet as a 'Tab Delimited Text (.txt)' file.

5. Back to Acrobat, Forms Menu, Manage Form Data, Import Data, Select 'Text Files', Select your file, highlight data group and hit  OK.

[Marc22531312i211]

I have a similar project. I took an existing pdf and exported it to Word. Using the Word Mail Merge tools the fields from my Excel were populated. Then you can merge a single document or your entire list and save as a pdf. It looks like the original document. There may be some time needed to allign the fields if the original document was set up as a table. This has saved me much time and avoided to have to request a software upgrade from our IT department

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Check out:

http://try67.blogspot.com/2011/09/acrobat-mail-merge-and-email.html