InDesign CC Data Merge and Variable Data Printing
InDesign's data merge lets you easily incorporate Variable Data Printing (VDP), automated document generation from InDesign templates, and personalization into your designs. This course will help you master the power of data merge in InDesign CC.
What you'll learn
InDesign's data merge features open three avenues that are closed off to you without data merge. In this course, InDesign CC Data Merge and Variable Data Printing, you'll learn how to master the power of data merge in InDesign, so you can help your clients get those higher response rates, increased repeat orders, and amazing 31% higher revenue. First, you'll explore personalized, variable data publishing of single-page, multi-page, and long document projects. Next, you'll discover automatic and semi-automatic generation of repetitively-formatted content in one document or book. Finally, you'll dive into database-driven and database-updatable publications. By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary knowledge to create your own exciting, personalized content. Software required: Adobe InDesign CC.
Table of contents
- Intro 3m
- Preparing a Form Letter Data Merge 5m
- Generating Form Letters 6m
- Removing Blank Lines Made by Empty Fields 3m
- Preparing to Merge Multiple Records per Page 3m
- Merging Multiple Records per Page 3m
- Working with Multiple Records per Page 5m
- Building Multi-page Variable Text Publications 4m
- Getting Creative with Variable Text 4m
- Wrap Up 3m
- Intro 3m
- Using Advanced Image Auto-fitting 3m
- Automatically Preventing Overset Text 3m
- Anchoring Objects to Merged Text 3m
- Saving Costs on VDP 3m
- Updating Data After Merging with and Without XML 5m
- Adding Variable QR Codes with Enhanced Data Merge 5m
- Creating a Yearbook with Inline Text and Images 8m
- Using Data Merge to Populate Non-VDP 2m
- Next Steps 5m
About the author
Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world. As a freelance graphic designer with over 20 years' experience, Pariah sits on the Adobe Advisory Group, is an Adobe Freelancer, and is an Adobe Community Professional and a former trainer and technical lead for Adobe's technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrato... more