Overset Text and Benchmarks

Question

I have a couple of questions about dealing with variable data in InDesign.

1.) Is there a way of finding and dealing with overset text before creating a merged document? I'm actually waiting on the program now to finish finding overset text so I can correct those pages and get things ready to print. It's 6 addresses out of 4,500 that I need to fix so I don't want to change the whole document to deal with those 6. They're people with really long names and I want to be able to control where the line break is.

2.) Does anyone have any benchmarks on the time it takes XMPIE to do a data merge vs InDesign. I've noticed that InDesign starts to bog down a lot no matter what system you're on around 1,500-2,000 records. I've done some testing with XMPIE and it seems better, but I don't have any hard numbers.

Jongware · Accepted Answer

I'm somewhat new to InDesign. I've created pages for our catalog and get the following message when I want to print:

There is overset text on these pages......

How do I determine what the overset text is?

Create a new Preflight profile that just checks the things you are interested in, in this case "Overset text". The Preflight panel shows the overset locations as hot links to their actual position, so it's just a matter of click, fix (the list will update), next, until done.

BobLevine · Answer

2 is going to depend very heavily on the system InDesign is installed on.

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