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I have a 2 page indesign A3 landscape document which has 20 data fields (10 on each page) which are populated with numbers from a text file. I am having a really weird problem. If I create a merged Indesign document it all works fine, but as it is a 3000 record data file it takes a long time to create this file.
But if I create a merged pdf from the original Indesign file, one of the datafields just repeats the number from the first page. All the other 19 fields merge correctly. I have recreated the data field but same happens.
I attach a merged pdf of records 1-20 to show the issue.
Any help appreciated!
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I believe there's a bug (suprised not fixed yet) - if you preview the data before doing the export then it fails.
Don't preview the data merge and try the export blindly - see if that works.
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And make a new template file if this is what happened. Once damaged by previewing a data merge template never seems to work correctly again.
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Did that. Still the same issue.