Using InDesign to number raffle or admission tickets
Most software programs have little known features that can simplify your tasks or get you out of a jam. InDesign’s Data Merge is a tool that works like “Mail Merge” found in MS Word that you may already be familiar with.
Last week we were able to help a customer with a tight deadline complete 600 numbered raffle tickets done in full color in less than 24 hrs using Data Merge. The customer had designed the raffle tickets in Quark Xpress, we had them output a Press Quality PDF and place it as a picture in InDesign CS4. We created a list of numbers 001-600 in 2 columns for the numbering. One numbered position was on the tear off stub, the other was on the ticket. The sheets were printed on a digital color printer, perforated and cut apart.
To find the Data Merge tool in InDesign, click on the Window menu,
Here are two videos that show how to do the Data Merge process. The first one shows a simple data merge for a product catalog. The second one shows how to merge pictures along with text.
For this video, click the link and scroll down the page until you see “Click Here” below the MS Excel picture.
InDesign CS4 Beyond the Basics: Datamerge Putting your data into InDesign By David Blatner
Data merge with pictures from theInDesigner.com blog
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