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2006-12-13 07:43:02

CindySue

Registered: Nov 30 2006

Posts: 2

Is there a way for Acrobat 8 to implement mail merge or do I need to use my page layout program? I use InDesign CS2 for this particular project. I know InDesign will do this (not that I have figured it out yet,) but would like to include the mail merge step at the end use.

Thank you,
Cynthia

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Macintosh

2007-01-02 16:05:56

DuffJohnson

Registered: May 30 2006

Posts: 96

There are lots and lots of ways to do this. The way that's right for you has a lot more to do with what you know coming into the project, your familiarity with databases, the nature of your implementation, and so on.

In general, PDF is not a great application for purely mail-merge functions. For variable-printing functions (a highly-related but nonetheless different application), PDF is a natural, but mail-merge for letters... Acrobat certainly isn't made for it.

So, while it can be done via FDF, SOAP, javascript and a variety of related methods... good old Mail Merge is MS Word may still be the way to go.

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2009-04-06 13:11:27

marconev

Registered: Apr 6 2009

Posts: 1

I have a 2 page pdf document and a file with 100,000 records to perform a mail merge creating another pdf as output. How can I do this?

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