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Expert: - 5/5/2011


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Hi, is there a way in indesign to, using data merge, to email the resulting files to emails held in the database?

Answer
Not as far as I know.
In what format is your database stored? You could use something like CatBase to do it, but that might be overkill for your needs. You could import the email addresses (and other contact details) into the CatBase database and then send the emails from there. But I'm not sure how you would determine which file(s) to attach to each email.
See http://www.catbase.com/Tutorials/emailing.html

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Pat

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Pat Bensky

Expertise

My specialty is database publishing: using InDesign to produce publications such as catalogues, directories, price lists, classified ads etc. - anything that's based on data from a database or spreadsheet.

Experience

I have been working with page layout programs since the very first first of QuarkXPress back in .... 1987? I've worked with InDesign since it first came out and have helped many clients to create their publications using database publishing methods, and have written an application to streamline the process (CatBase).

Publications
As I used to be a journalist working for an international news agency (in a previous lifetime) I have been published in many publications around the world. As for technology writing: I was Editor-in-Chief of a Mscintosh magazine (MacGuide) and have written for various other publications on a freelance basis, such as The LA Weekly and InfoWorld.

Education/Credentials
College: Certificate in computer programming and information Processing University: Post-graduate diploma in IT (Liverpool University)

Past/Present Clients
Barclays Bank, Stanley Tools, Europa Components, The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham), and many others. My software (CatBase) has also been used by design firms to produce publications for such clients as Kellogg's, The English Tourist Board. and numerous others.

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