Data Merge to Separate Multipage PDFs

Of course you can also work without any bookmarks and split the PDF in chunks of two pages using Acrobat Pro.

View > Tools > Organize Pages

Click Option Split to get some new tools.

Configure Output Options. You can define a target folder.

If the original name of the PDF is "Merged" you are nearly good to go, just add an underline to this base name.

The next thing you will do is:

Split by [ Number of pages ] [ 2 ] Pages

Then press button Split. That's it.

A success message will tell the result. In my case I had a 12 pages PDF file that was split to 6 files:

If you then feel the need to convert the results to PDF/X do so using Acrobat's Preflight profile actions.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Drew,

could be done. Below is the workflow. If needed we can discuss details later:

[1] Do your merge to one big document.

[2] Create a table of contents on contents that is on every odd page only.

You already may have contents from the merge that would fit in this category.

The formatting of the TOC could be "invisible", no fill for the text for example.

Or the frame of the TOC could only touch the first page of your document.

[3] Export the whole document to PDF with the option enabled that bookmarks are created out of the TOC.

[4] Split your document in Acrobat Pro to chunks using the bookmarks as dividers. The naming could be done in the split options. A base name like "Merged_" plus a counting number with one or two leading zeros.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

You cannot handle that directly with Indesigns data merge afaik. You can either use custom scripts to do the export part or external software. We use MyDataMerge for Mac where you can also add custom filenames from database.