This way, you don't have to make a blank.pdf and the images will still align to the left. You can now right-click on a highlighted cell and click delete, and in the next dialog, click shift cells left button and then select blanks and click OK. and in the next dialog box, click the Special. To do this, highlight all the data and in Excel, go Edit, Find, Go to. To do this, all the blank cells need to be selected and deleted, with the content shifting to the left. It's obvious I want it to be more like this: Take a database like this in Microsoft Excel. This still relies on the data merge placeholders being inline graphics placed next to each other, but doesn't require a blank.pdf. The alternate way that will work if left aligning only: The weird thing is that the address block will merge (which pulls from 4 different cells), then there will be a blank set of pages, then the next set will be the next row of data so will have Row 1 from the CSV (but only certain fields), will be completely blank, and will have the data from Row 2. The advantage is that this will work whether the graphics need to be aligned to the left, right, or center. In the database, and making sure any missing image data is replaced with the blank.pdf link. Lastly, the Fit Frames To Images setting in the content placement options needs to be selected. This will mean that any PDFs linked via the data merge will also use this option, so the incoming graphics must be the correct size prior to the merge. When the options appear, select Art from the dropdown menu. This is done by creating "blank.pdf" in Illustrator – a blank page with only one object in it measuring 0.001mm square with no fill or stroke.īefore beginning the merge, place the blank.pdf into InDesign making sure the show import options checkbox is checked. The way to solve this is to make the image frames shrink to an almost unnoticeable size. I've used this technique in real-world examples as well. I've written more about this in a piece I wrote for InDesign Magazine issue 52. ![]() ![]() I would use a solution quite similar to the method outlined by DBLjan, relying on empty results being assigned an image that is really tiny and called something like blank.pdf, data merge's frame fitting options are set to fit frames to images, and the images being placed as inline graphics next to each other.
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