I have written about this before but ultimately when exporting a PDF directly from Data Merge, it makes a variety of PDF that is similar but not the same as a usual PDF, as the following options cannot be chosen. PDF made from merge is different to regular PDF If you see a Cannot open file InDesign error message, this is likely to be because the Target Document was created in a newer version of InDesign and can’t be opened with your version. However, this does not extend to the source data of a Data Merge file, nor any links that the source data may refer to. When InDesign packages an INDD file, it will save a copy of the file and copy any links used in the document into a Links folder, and any fonts used (within licensing restrictions) to a Document fonts folder. Can’t package the data or links used in the data sometimes, when you open the Excel file it will 'lose' column formatting and reapplying, even if. If you have to print the same document multiple times, but with slightly different information you may want to try out data merging.
if that still fails, try setting as 'special-zip code', or as 'custom' and the text box type 5-Zeros to designate as 5 numeric positions. Given the amount of tutorials already available online elsewhere concerning basic tutorials for Data Merge, the Colecandoo site focuses more on articles about Data Merge in relation to scripts, GREP styles, or advanced techniques.īut there is a middle-ground that hasn’t been covered in many Data Merge tutorials, nor here on Colecandoo, so over the next two articles, I will attempt to bridge that gap and highlight some lesser known issues that can become a problem if users aren’t initially aware of them. first, to combat the dropped zeros, reset the column as 'Text' in the excel file before saving as. Regulars to the site will know that many of my articles relate to InDesign’s Data Merge feature.
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