In fact, I personally wouldn’t stop there… instead of having to go through this entire procedure, I’d let them know that Data Merge’s features need to be expanded and improved upon so that workarounds like this should not be necessary. This is a feature I would like to see and if you feel the same way, make sure to tell the Adobe InDesign team at their feature request/bug report form. Unlike the print PDF presets, there is no ability to create interactive PDF presets. To be fair, this has nothing to do with Peter’s script, but rather a “feature” (or lack of…) by InDesign. One other frustration with this method is that the interactive export settings have to be initially created from a “sacrificial” PDF. It lets you export to InDesign documents, PDFs, interactive PDFs or CSV. While this technique works, it’s annoying to have to double-handle files. Extending the data merge of Adobe InDesign is the real power of MyDataMerge. Peter’s script will now begin to work through the files exporting them to interactive PDFs. Choose the source format as InDesign and the target format as PDF (interactive).Choose an output folder by pointing to a destination folder for the interactive PDFs.The three checkboxes underneath this option should be unchecked. Once Peter’s script is open, choose the input folder by pointing to the folder containing the newly created InDesign files.Written By katelinburge28198 Wednesday, Add Comment Edit. Peter Kahrel’s Batch Convert script is used to convert the InDesign files to Interactive PDF files. Failed To Export The Pdf File Indesign - Data Merge Pdf Export Vs Regular Pdf Export Colecandoo / There could also be a single corrupt file thats interfering with the export. Use the Data Merge to Single Record script to merge to InDesign files to a new location using the name of the student and the teacher in the filename.The PDFs had the name of the student and the teacher as the filename. The form would contain the student’s name, class number and teacher from the Data Merge panel, but other components of the document were interactive form fields. This situation presented itself in a real-world example where a school wanted to provide an interactive form to the parents of the students. The solution is to merge to an InDesign file, and then export the merged InDesign file to an interactive PDF. I don’t know the reasons why these options are unable to be checked and in my mind it doesn’t make any sense that they should not be able to be selected at all.īut I digress… if interactive PDFs need to be created using Data Merge (for example, a survey where the participant was directly named during the Data Merge) then this cannot be done via the export to PDF directly from Data Merge. For PNGs, we’ll use ImageMagick’s convert command: convert -limit memory 2MB ls combined.pdf. With the exception of being unable to check the spreads checkbox, the other limitations don’t usually pose too many issues when creating print-ready PDFs.
Note that several options are greyed out. The export PDF dialog box via Data Merge.
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