How-To’s Day: InDesign: Data Merge

When Adobe discontinued future development of PageMaker in early 2004 they released a transitional tool, the InDesign CS PageMaker Plug-In Pack (and the InDesign CS PageMaker Edition, which is the plug-in suite pre-packaged with InDesign CS). Maybe it’s just a fault of marketing, but the PageMaker Plug-In Pack (”PM Pack”) hasn’t received as much attention as it should have.

It is a valuable tool because it fills in several gaps in InDesign’s feature set, features that PageMaker has had for 15 or more years. With the PM Pack InDesign can do automatic bullets and numbering, imposition through an included InBooklet SE from ALAP, and, most valuable of all, does Data Merge.

As a big proponent of the PM Pack myself, I was glad to see Digital Media Designer’s Dave Nagel tackle a Data Merge tutorial under real world conditions in a magazine workflow.

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