Pathock 3 Posted December 8, 2018 Yes please. This is essential for prototyping board games. 3 debiant, tresjax and nicktruch reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
debiant 7 Posted December 12, 2018 On 12/8/2018 at 8:57 AM, Pathock said: Yes please. This is essential for prototyping board games. Glad to see I'm not the only one who would use it for this purpose explicitly. 3 tresjax, Pathock and nicktruch reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nicktruch 1 Posted December 12, 2018 Exactly the same for me ! For my 240 card game, data merge is a survival question 1 tresjax reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Broom 0 Posted December 16, 2018 Data merge is an absolute must for me. I have been waiting for Affinity Publisher for a while now. I was planning that, once the full version of Affinity Publisher was available, I would bring my Adobe Creative Cloud membership to an end and move over to Affinity products completely. But.........I make great use of data merge in InDesign (even if it doesn't always work very well!!!) and so not having data merge is a bit of a show stopper for me. Adobe must know that InDesign's data merge is a fragile and I have been asking them for a long, long time to fix the problems they have with it but they turn the Adobe deaf ear in my direction. Adobe seem to have turned their searchlight in the general direction of mobile applications and, to me at least, they seem to be doing much with their desktop offerings (please feel free to correct me if you think I am wrong). And so, I have very high hopes that Affinity Publisher will be a direct replacement for Adobe InDesign. Please, Affinity, let us have data merge in Affinity Publisher and my cup will surely overflow. Richard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frederic Denis 0 Posted December 18, 2018 ☑️+1 vote for data merge! I don't trust Excel for positioning and measurement, and I regularly need to print a list of small messages on same size labels of paper. Affinity Publisher with Data Merge would be my tool of choice for it (doing it the good old copy-and-paste way in Designer until then). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tresjax 2 Posted December 18, 2018 On 12/12/2018 at 11:32 AM, debiant said: Glad to see I'm not the only one who would use it for this purpose explicitly. You are not the only ones. 1 debiant reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edgar RAMEL 1 Posted December 19, 2018 Data fusion (or direct mail) is in my opinion indispensable. She was present in Serif Pageplus and allowed this desktop publishing software to be a Swiss publishing knife. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gEP1000 2 Posted December 21, 2018 Another +1 for data-merge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Luigi Nica 1 Posted December 23, 2018 I can not believe you don't have Data merge in the core of your product. I really hope that after 6 pages of comments you will implement it. Did I mentioned that I opened an account specially to be able to say: +1 for this. This was the first thing I looked for when I opened Publisher. Merge with data from csv file. Thanks, Luigi 1 flashpoint reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
debiant 7 Posted December 26, 2018 They are holding off the initial release to include more features we want (from the update email that just came out). Hopefully, this thread makes clear that this is an indispensable part of what designers want/need to work in Publisher. 2 Hildy and Josh Mills reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fde101 183 Posted December 27, 2018 On 12/26/2018 at 6:53 AM, debiant said: Hopefully, this thread makes clear that this is an indispensable part of what designers want/need to work in Publisher. I suspect they already knew that to be the case for some users. Personally I don't use it at all right now though I can easily see potential use cases for it in the future. They won't get everything that is considered "essential" by everyone into the first release. I would be more inclined to suspect it is master page functionality they are primarily delaying for, but obviously I don't know that for sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigfoot 0 Posted December 29, 2018 When is Data merge going to be implemented in to Publisher? This is the biggest feature that I need especially when producing 300 certificates a year. I already have Photo and Designer just need to have Publisher with Data merge then I will have the Holy Trinity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeW 1,258 Posted December 29, 2018 6 minutes ago, bigfoot said: When is Data merge going to be implemented in to Publisher? This is the biggest feature that I need especially when producing 300 certificates a year. I already have Photo and Designer just need to have Publisher with Data merge then I will have the Holy Trinity. Perhaps what I describe in the following thread re certificates would work while merging is not yet implemented? Mike My computer is a nothing-special Toshiba laptop with unremarkable specs running Windows 10 64-bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frank Jonen 131 Posted Monday at 10:28 PM And yet another one for data merge. SQL inputs especially since SOME people HAVE to work on data up to the last 20 seconds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Domikenens 1 Posted yesterday at 11:47 AM Data Merge would be a huuuuuuge boon, as InDesign already stopped developing their (flawed, buggy) data merge feature. It is absolutely essential to quite some (smaller) design firms, as it saves time that bigger companies can spend through manpower or programming/coding expertise Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
