…If you're laying out a page of images like a school yearbook or a contact…sheet of your photographs, you might not…be working from a spreadsheet or a database.…You probably just have a bunch of images in a folder.…But that's okay, in this movie I'm going to show you how you quickly make a…CSV or text file that you can use with data merge from that folder of images.…Then, in the next movie, I'll show you how you can use that file to layout a page.…Here inside my exercise…files folder, I have a folder called photos, and each of these is a…picture of a person, and the file name is the person's name, last name first.…
I want to use all of these images to create some yearbook pages.…But I don't have a spreadsheet with all these names in it.…Now one way to get a spreadsheet of all of this images,…is a free script called folder to CSV that you can download.…I mentioned where to find it earlier on in this chapter.…And that script will convert any folder of images into a CSV file that you can use.…It's awesome, it's really fast.…
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7/2/2014Released
2/13/2014- 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
Skill Level Advanced
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Q: This course was updated on 7/02/2014. What changed?
A: We added one new movie covering QR codes. David shows you the easy way to create dozens or even hundreds of QR codes with data from sources like Excel using InDesign's Data Merge feature.
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Introduction
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Welcome53s
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Using the exercise files1m 4s
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1. Data Merge Fundamentals
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Understanding Data Merge1m 16s
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Data publishing terminology2m 11s
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Data Merge best practices1m 17s
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2. Project One: Making Name Tags
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Setting up the data2m 42s
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Creating the template7m 17s
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Create the merged document2m 30s
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3. Project Two: A Course Catalog Flyer
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Updating the data5m 47s
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4. Extending Data Merge
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Data merging into a table4m 16s
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5. Third-Party Database Publishing Tools
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Moving beyond Data Merge1m 38s
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Conclusion
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Next steps55s
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Video: Prepping a folder of images for Data Merge