Export 100+ Data Merged business-cards as separate two paged pdf files

[Sephen]

How do I export 100+ Data Merged business-cards as separate two paged (front/back) pdf files. The front and back both contain personalised data.

Thanks in advance!

[Sephen]

Anyone?

Also How can I name the pdf files per Data-Merge row

[walt.farrell]

As Data Merge only creates a single output file, you will need to split the PDF afterwards, using some other tool.

You could do that easily using Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo, if your merged file had 1 page per card. But as it has 2 pages per card that would be complex. So you will probably want some other PDF splitter. I don't have one to recommend, but I know they exist.

If it had 1 page per card, you could Open the PDF in Designer or Photo, which would give you 100 Artboards. The Export Persona could then easily, and in one operation, give you 100 output PDFs.

Perhaps you could make two input files (front of card, back of card) and perform 2 Data Merges, giving you a front PDF and a back PDF. Then use Designer or Photo to split those into 100 front PDF files and 100 back PDF files, and then print the fronts and backs as two single-sided operations?

[wonderings]

Would be a nice thing if there was a way of exporting each PDF as what was in your document. So in your case a 2 page Publisher file to merge out 100 records as 100 - 2 sided PDF files. I thought I could do this in Indesign but just did a test and I can't there either. Would be a handy little feature for those dealing with a lot of business card orders.

Are the cards all the same quantity? If so there is no real benefit that I can think of for having them as separate files, you could impose 24 up on a sheet and just go through the list selecting the first 24, then the next 24, and so on. Will save you a ton of time separating them all out.