![]() To download the script and find more, go to this link. Rather than use Excel to make the data for the Data Merge, a javascript called “Images to CSV” was used. Similar to the printers pairs with no bleed, the only exception being is that the same picture references is used over again to n-up the pages as required (in the example, this is 2-up). 3) To N-up one page to two (or three, four etc). To compensate for the spine so that the bleeds don’t overlap, the picture references for the data merge have been “Pasted Into” other frames so that only the bleed on top, bottom and foredge is visible. ![]() 2) To impose for Printers Pairs – with bleed.Įssentially similar to the printers pairs with no bleed, but a big exception is that the pages being referenced have bleed. ![]() The variable data itself references the pages by the filename given to each page number (e.g. To do this, i’ve made two A3 landscape pages in InDesign and each page has two placeholders for variable data images. It assumes a 128pp A4 size book will be prepared as A3 printers pairs for printing on a copier. So onto the Five Examples: 1) Printers pairs with no bleed. This is a very powerful script which will extract not only as single page PDFs but also EPS or JPG, but read the instructions – everything to detail how to extract the pages appropriately are spelled out in the instructions. Go to this site and download the script, making sure to read the instructions.2) From InDesign, using the Page Exporter Utility (PEU) Script by Scott Zanelli. In the New Filenames portion of the dialog box, make sure Sequence Number is selected, starting from the number 1, and then with the appropriate amount of digits for the amount of pages being extracted (there are 128 pages in the example, so three digits is appropriate) and click OK.Select all of the documents and then select “Batch Rename…” from the Tools Menu of Bridge. go to Bridge and navigate to the folder where the single page PDFs have been extracted.A window will prompt for a folder to save these files in, make sure to put them in a new folder (nothing like cleaning up 128 files off of the desktop!) make sure that the total amount of pages are extracted (in this example there are 128 pages) and that “Extract Pages as Separate Files” is ticked on, and click OK.select Extract Pages from the Document Menu of Acrobat.This can be done in two ways: 1) From Acrobat and Bridge, once a PDF is made In every example, the books or tickets being imposed have been broken up into single pages. Having the links in the same directory as the text file ensures that if the folder is moved from one machine to another, that the links will still be accurate. * To make sure that no “missing picture” errors appear when making the data merge in InDesign, make sure that the data text file AND the links being referred to are in the same directory or referred to with their full path.To easily have a number so that it has a file reference at the end without endless errors of #VALUE or #NAME appear, make sure that the numbers are actually numbers (not text) BUT in the formatting, make sure that this formatting is adopted for the cells which are to be picture references:.To overcome this error, type an apostrophe first. However, when typing this in Excel, an error will occur. References to pictures must have an sign in the header row.To also help people unfamiliar with Excel to make spreadsheets without too much frustration, note that: In most examples, the text files for the merge are typically made in Microsoft Excel unless stated otherwise. I won’t go into great detail but would recommend downloading the PDFs, saving the attachments, and reverse-engineering what I’ve done. I’ve prepared five examples which are all downloadable PDFs with the attachments inside the PDFs. See this article for more reasons why NOT to impose files for your printer or provider.ĭata Merge can be used for so much more than simply adding someone’s name to a piece of direct mail, so using Data Merge to do something as powerful as page imposition is quite a task. This article is really written to illustrate the power of InDesign’s Data Merge feature. …but i’d STRONGLY advise against it! impositions should ALWAYS be prepared by the printer.
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