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How to create personalized covers in InDesign

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Feb 10, 2023 Feb 10, 2023

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Hi everyone, 

  I am currently working on a project and I need to make each book cover with a different name on it and there are hundreds of names. I was wondering what you think the best way to do this is?

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Feb 10, 2023 Feb 10, 2023

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Use Data Merge.

 

Create the book cover template with a field for the name. Merge that with a list of names from almost any source (Word, Excel, a text file, etc.) Voilá.

 

Start with the Data Merge pane — Window | Utilities | Data Merge, especially its 'hamburger icon' menu. Help and tutorials are easy to find and you can ask here if they're not enough.

 


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Thank you so much!

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Depends on the layout - and amount of information - and if you have covers as a separate file - you could just create a TextFrame on a Master Spread and flow your text with StartOnNextPage in the ParaStyle options - much less hassle than DataMerge 😉 

 

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True and true; the only advantage merge would have is repeatability once set up. But for  a one-shot job... yep, this would probably be much easier.

 


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You can do this using a data merge). Read about it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/using/data-merge.html.

You would first need to save your names in a CSV file (make sure to include a column heading e.g. 'Names') . Then create/open your InDesign document. Go to Window>Utilities>Data Merge and click Select Data Source from the panel menu. Choose your CSV file and click Open. Next, place the insertion point in the text frame and position where you would like the name to go. Then, in the Data Merge panel, click the name field; this should add a placeholder. Once done you can preview the data merge by selecting Preview, amend as required then select Create Merged Document from the Data Merge panel menu. Here you can choose to either merge to a new InDesign document or PDF. 

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