InDesign Demo: Data Merge from Excel to Multiple Pages & Convert to Spreads

[@mrgraphik]

Good stuff changing it to spreads. All good info! Cheers!

[@AndrewPalios]

Thanks bro!

[@iomarketing8722]

You bet

[@missyg_]

Wow, first data merge tutorial that is really helpful, thanks!

[@iomarketing8722]

Glad to hear that!

[@cesarbrasilator]

This was super useful, thanks for the clear instructions 🙂

[@Joedebengaluru]

Thank you very much for the convert to spreads part

[@kevinvandessel650]

Thnx man realy helped me out.

[@debbieanderson3318]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@iomarketing8722]

You're welcome!

[@rinoitaly]

Good tutorial. ty

[@jasperdelange3146]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@iomarketing8722]

No worries!

[@josejavier2360]

Is it possible, using data merge, to not only place different 1 one page images and text in a layout, but also export those layouts-individually (in the same page) into different files? Suppose you have in the same page 1 Photo with descriptions, call that lay out 1 (a group). Then you also have a few other groups, with more photos and text. The idea is that you have a page where you have say 5 different designs, of different dimensions. So each design or mini layout in the same page is a group of itself, and the from here you can automate this to export those layouts (5 in this case) as 5 different graphics, wther be a JPGS, PNG, PDF, etc.. I do video translations, and the idea is that I can translate the graphics I place on the videos all at once. So I could have document in InDesign with only one page, or even two or 3 where I have 5 different graphics in each that go into the video, and using data merge I can change the text language and translate the graphics of of say 10 videos, all at once. Those images are e saved to a folder, and using my video editing software, I line those images to the video. I am not asking about the translation in itself, for that is already taken care of, but actual exporting (saving) of those groups as individual images. So, I would have Page 1 set up with all the graphics asstets I need. This would be page for ENGLISH, Page 2 Spanish, 3. French, and so on. I have a script that does automatic translation. SO all I need is the ability to export eahc asset as an indovidua; image. I guss the Indesign document name would be something like graphic_ and the resulting exported graphics would be graphic_01.png, graphic_02.png, graphic_03.png, etc. Docuemnt nam or especifing that name convention in some way. I know this can can be done, I just don't know how to export 5 different elements in my page into 5 different files. I hope it wasn't too confusing. Any help? Thanks in adavance for any one that throws a lead on this.

[@morganacannon8961]

If you want to export specific elements of your work I think you can use 'articles' in indesign to do this by attributing 'article' tags to parts of your document to i guess create category markers that you can distinguish and export easily as their own docs, i am NOT sure if this would work with data merged content as the data merge is filling elements automatically but i think once the data is in the document the content becomes its own object

[@cristovieneya8997]

@@morganacannon8961 Ok, I will take a look into that. Thanks