It proceeds to a conclusion and then fails to display any merged result. When InDesign does encounter this constraint, instead of throwing an error and aborting. (9) While I cannot find evidence of a memory constraint, as I never run out of memory, I believe I have found a database limitation, presuming that InDesign has some internalize database to which the merges data is added.
INDESIGN DATA MERGE MULTIPLE RECORDS NOT WORKING PDF
InDesign will merge to a PDF in 10% of the time it takes to merge to a new document and then save that document to a PDF. But this is very unsatisfactory, because of the next problem. As I recall the problem manifests when merging to PDF, not when merging to another document. (7) If a cross reference on a master-page is linked to data on the page containing placeholders, it will be locked at the value of record 1 in some cases, instead of being variable. Using longer names to distinguish both is not always convenient because of point (4). So I might create a source document, then place a dataholder called Employee that contains a name and one called that contains a picture, but then be startled to find both display as in placeholder view. (6) Data placeholders do not reflect what data type they are. (5) If a placeholder exists for data that is not contained in the data source, ID throws an error but does not call out the offending placeholder by name! Combined with the above, if a record has 50 fields, it can take an hour to locate the source of the problem when it should take only a second. In other words, they may be completely invisible. (4) Data merge placeholders are often longer than the data they contain, such that while the preview may be intelligible, a view of the placeholders may have them flowing out of the bounding box. While Adobe might argue they have de-prioritize a fix due limited resources, I cannot imagine an justification for why they have not simply removed that checkbox from the merge dialog box. (3) Preview multiple record layout will corrupt a document making it useless forever with no hope of repair if one mistakenly saves it. Unmanagable sized datasets seem to resulted in non-linear growth of processing time. It takes 0.7 seconds per record when handling a quantities than seem manageable to ID.
![indesign data merge multiple records not working indesign data merge multiple records not working](https://macbookandheels.com/assets/img/post/2016/02/1602-indesign02.jpg)
And 20,000 records, before some image size reductions that may have impacted results, once took over 48 hours before I aborted the session. By this I mean even a data set of 5,000 records takes along time to process. (2) Indesign cannot handle moderately large datasets. (1) Mail merge was not engineered to the prevailing standard of quality at Adobe. The process is clearly cpu-intensive, but minimally multi-threaded. This provided little benefit, proving the problem is not disk intensive. I have plenty of workspace on a RAID 5 array and have even tried running the entirely project of a 10gb ram disk that held all source files and was designated as the scratch disk. Basically, only about two processors out of 32 are doing much. Nor am I processor constrained in a way that is avoidable as most of my cpu's are not being assigned tasks. I have ruled out the possibility of my needs being RAM constrained as Task Manager indicates significant memory headroom at all times. Even if it were, there is plenty of room to argue my situation is not large or massive in scale, but no greater than medium. I say non-exotic, because I can bring to mind hundreds of documents I have seen in the world that are far more complex, and nothing in the marketing or documentation suggests InDesign is limited to small-scale projects. I have spent hundreds of hours inventing workarounds and optimizations to get an entirely non-exotic data merge to work involving only two documents. I still have a live unresolved issue whose defining characteristic I have yet to discovered. I posted this following a link labelled "contact us." Adobe does not monitor the World Wide Web 24x7? How do foreigners get tech support? I paid my money and expect an official response. This is my second try with the same result. WTF is going on? This document usually composes at a rate of 0.7 records per second. And the result has posted behind the progress bar. 56 records, 24 hours, and still only 98% completed.