How to create an interactive PDF with variable data
We basically have a "mail merge" to our list of customers with an interactive PDF file (including videos, menus, etc. - not only form fill and web links) to create a single PDF that contains several pieces of mail... one for each customer... with each total mail being customized for this customer. Customizations would include different greetings (Bob dear, dear Dana, etc), as well as the different graphs based on unique data to the client, photographs, etc.
I saw that InDesign and Acrobat Professional can be used to create an interactive PDF (such as http://tv.adobe.com/watch/ask-the-adobe-ones/14-calling-rufus-about-interactive-pdf-making). But I don't understand how I can insert data into a database, csv, excel etc. in the PDF file file so that each page, or each set of pages in the PDF file can be customized.
Can someone tell me a tool to use for this?
Thank you
Bob Kendall
I'm new on this and didn't know InDesign could do a data merge, thank you for pointing that out.
However, we currently produce hundreds of thousands of personalized daily electronic documents, a PDF file or Web user interaction (no, this isn't spam or junk mail). Our customers have asked us to focus on the generation of personalized interactive PDFs and I fear that the volume could overwhelm InDesign. My other concern is that all of our work performed automatically (we run hundreds every day) and it is not possible to have a person to sit down, then run InDesign manually for each job. Our standard operating system need a certain version of unix (AIX or linux), although we can perform tasks under windows if necessary. It seems, as InDesign will fit in this environment? If not, is there something else out there?
Thank you for your time.
-Bob
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