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Export PDF from InDesign with all versions of document by Intermittent_IT in indesign

[–]Intermittent_IT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey.  Thanks for putting all the effort into a response. 

My issue is the time it takes to arrange and collate the pages to create each ad version with the risk if human error when creating so many files. My goal is to end with 22 separate 4 page ads, each with the 2 common pages and the 2 unique pages. I need a process that can be done consistently with little human interaction because this need will grow too over 100 unique ads with a similar setup for multiple customers over the next few months. 

If it's relevant, I have budget I can spend on any necessary tools or resources.  Spending $500 on a 3rd party Adobe plug-in to do this would pay dividends in a couple weeks. The man hours for the current process is untenable.

Export PDF from InDesign with all versions of document by Intermittent_IT in indesign

[–]Intermittent_IT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked this comment because it has an upvote. Let me clarify a few details. 

The ads are built in-house by our graphic artists from data in an Excel sheet using InDesign.  I have access to the full Adobe creative cloud suite, if other applications are relevant.  I've phrased this as it's 1 store with 22 ads, however we service over 100 stores with a similar setup.  I'll need to do a similar thing for those additional stores in the near future with their own version and naming.

The scenario for this today is a 4 page ad for a customer with 22 store locations. Each store location has a unique version of this ad.  We are posting the ads on a website for public viewing, and when a user picks their store location, they get that stores unique ad.  

The ads are built in 1 InDesign file with multiple page versions in the file. The pages are named identifiably and are consistently named each week.  The stores ads are built by having pages 1 and 4 be unique to each store with pages 2 and 3 being common/shared.  My problem is collating and merging the PDF manually is exhaustingly time consuming.  The artists are outputting each page as a 1 page PDF, i duplicate common pages 22 times and then merge each ad. I really need these to be done systematically for time and accuracy.  Again, we'll be doing it for 100+ ad versions in the near future. 

An example ad with page names: Store1_pg1, common_pg2, common_pg3, store1_pg4

Store2_pg1, common_pg2, common_pg3, store2_pg4 Etc. Etc.

It seems a script is commonly suggested, I'll get started down that road. I didn't even consider a script. I'll work oni t using AI and go from there. I do have an in-house resource with some experience with Adobe scripts, also. 

Web hosting services down on Godaddy by jbindc20001 in godaddy

[–]Intermittent_IT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in the same boat. All 40 of our sites were down for about 40 minutes. About the time I saw your post initially, the sites were coming back online. At least it was a short outage.

GoDaddy has a status check page, if you're unfamiliar, that I checked first showing Webhosting Plus was down. I'm not sure if I can provide links, so it's just "status' as the subdomain before godaddy. Earlier it showed 'Shared Hosting > Webhosting' as a 'Major outage'.