Lynda - InDesign Insider Training: Data Merge and Database Publishing with David Blatner

1h 52m Advanced | Updated Jul 02, 2014 | Uploaded in Sept 25, 2014 by 2boweb

Subjects: Design Page Layout Print Production Projects
Software: InDesign Author: David Blatner

When faced with large amounts of information, the designer's challenge is to make it clear and easy to understand. Adobe InDesign can help. With its Data Merge command, you can take raw data from spreadsheets or databases and quickly apply formatting with an InDesign template. In this course, author David Blatner takes you through the data merge capabilities of InDesign, two example projects (name tags and a catalog), and some third-party solutions that extend InDesign's data handling power.
Topics include:

Understanding data merge
Setting up the data
Creating the template
Building a merged document
Adding images
Updating the data
Extending Data Merge
Helpful third-party plugins and scripts