- #INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING FOR FREE#
- #INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING HOW TO#
- #INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING PROFESSIONAL#
Basically, only about two processors out of 32 are doing much. Nor am I processor constrained in a way that is avoidable as most of my cpu's are not being assigned tasks. I have ruled out the possibility of my needs being RAM constrained as Task Manager indicates significant memory headroom at all times. Even if it were, there is plenty of room to argue my situation is not large or massive in scale, but no greater than medium. I say non-exotic, because I can bring to mind hundreds of documents I have seen in the world that are far more complex, and nothing in the marketing or documentation suggests InDesign is limited to small-scale projects. I have spent hundreds of hours inventing workarounds and optimizations to get an entirely non-exotic data merge to work involving only two documents. I still have a live unresolved issue whose defining characteristic I have yet to discovered. I posted this following a link labelled "contact us." Adobe does not monitor the World Wide Web 24x7? How do foreigners get tech support? I paid my money and expect an official response. This is my second try with the same result. WTF is going on? This document usually composes at a rate of 0.7 records per second. And the result has posted behind the progress bar. 56 records, 24 hours, and still only 98% completed. So, ideally I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve anything other than standard Adobe and/or Microsoft Office programs.HELP.
#INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING FOR FREE#
(However, my workplace bureaucracy makes purchasing any add-ons basically impossible, and even downloading anything for free is a huge pain since no one in my office has admin privileges, and we have to put in a ticket with the IT folks across town to have anything new installed.
#INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING HOW TO#
I've tried messing with a bunch of other settings, too, but those seem like to most obviously relevant ones.ĭoes any one have any idea what I might be doing wrong, or how to fix this issue? I'd also accept suggestions for other ways to accomplish the same basic goal. Both my master pages and document pages are set to allow shuffling. Whether I have "preserve facing-page spreads" turned on or not does not appear to make any difference. Before anyone asks, I do have smart text reflow enabled, "delete empty pages" turned on, and "limit to primary text frames" turned off. This happens whether I try it from the master page or not. If I delete the right-side page before initiating the merge, then smart text reflow doesn't work, and the longer listings wind up with overset text. So I wind up with a bunch of spreads with blank pages. The data merge works fine, but smart text reflow refuses to delete the extra, blank right-side page for the listings where the text is short enough to fit on just a single page. This is where I've started encountering a problem. I plan to use smart text reflow to accommodate the fact that some of the fields will contain information that might vary in length pretty dramatically from one listing to the next. I have it set up as facing-page spreads, because it will eventually be distributed both online and in print. So, the page layout is set up for the data merge such that I have an field at the top for the heading, then various fields for the other information to be included. There needs to be at least one page for each individual listing (i.e., each different occupation), but it is fine if listings span multiple pages. The responses will be compiled into a csv file, which I'll use to do a data merge in InDesign to get the necessary information into the publication layout. The plan is to create a form in Acrobat and distribute it to the various agencies that will be providing me updated information. Some of this information is things like "How many X occurred in year Y?" (which will just be a few numbers- a fairly consistent number of characters), but some is things like "Describe the process of doing X" (the answers I receive for these might vary wildly in terms of their length). To get the updated information I need, I must request it from a large number of different agencies. It is lengthy and has to be updated regularly, which is why I'm trying to streamline the process as much as possible.
#INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING PROFESSIONAL#
My question will make more sense if I briefly explain what I am trying to accomplish first: I am working on a directory of information about professional licensing requirements for various occupations.
Apologies if this has already been answered- I looked and was unable to find anything that addressed my specific issue.
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