Merging large data sets

InDesign starts to slow down when documents get to be between 50 and 100 pages. Merging a lot of data can become impossibly slow once the document gets large. For this reason, we offer the ability to split a merge over multiple documents.

  • DataLinker will start a new document after every set of records (you define how many)
  • When the merge is finished it will create an InDesign book containing all the individual InDesign documents
  • This makes merging lots of data much faster

When the merge is finished, you can use InDesign's native book features to create a single PDF combining all the individual InDesign documents into a single file.  Here's how.

To split a merge over multiple documents

  1. Select the text that contains the fields you wish to merge
  2. Select DataLinker > Merge
  3. Choose what records to merge
  4. In the Select rows for export dialog, check off the "Merge into multiple documents" checkbox
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  5. Choose how many records will be in each InDesign document
  6. Click OK
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