Changelog

Version 2.2

2024-10-21

Important note: Support for macOS 10 (Cheetah) was dropped (according to Apples policy). Minimum is now 11.5 (Big Sur – latest update). If you rely on a macOS older than 11.5 then do NOT update.

Official support for macOS 15 (Sequoia)
Official support for Adobe InDesign 20.0
Improvement: Better onboarding for automatic activated Adobe Cloud fonts
Improvement: Optimized wizard (don’t know yet? On starting a new project select “Open wizard” at the bottom)
Improvement: Memory Management
Fixed: Display issue in Export > General showing QR-Code option description text
Fixed: HFS Pathes (e. g. for images) have been broken leading to not merging images with HFS pathes in data source

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Version 2.1

2022-12-22

Improved: German translations
Fixed: Grep replacements bug (didn’t work in some situations)
Fixed: Grep replacements didn’t escape special characters in some situations
Fixed: Grep replacements didn’t trigger post processing in some situations
Fixed: Escaped InDesign special characters (e. g. $0 or $1) so they merge without issues

Version 2.0.1

2022-12-10

Hotfix: Crash on starting export
Fixed: Crash on trying import second time (if first time failed)
Improvement: Some error messages are more clear

Important note: Support for macOS 10.12 was dropped according to Apples policy. Minimum is now 10.13.
Don’t forget that you can always roll back to a previous version in the changelog on mydatamerge.com

New: We listened! We added a project wizard to make onboarding a lot easier. The wizard will generate a custom tutorial for you based on your needs. You can activate the wizard from the file menu or the import screen. It requires an active internet connection
New: Add Dynamically generated hyperlinks (E-Mail, URL or File) to Text-, Image- or QR-Code placeholders (for export to InDesign or interactive PDF only)
New: QR-Code Vcard 3.0
New: Presets. Load complete or partial placeholder configurations as presets to other placeholders, to minify setup time
New: A better Autolink. You can now identify image and QR-Code placeholders by prefixing them in the layout (e. g. image placeholder <<@image>> or qrcode placeholder <<#qrcode>>) and Autolink will automatically set them up with the right type
Compatibility with macOS 13.0 (ventura)
Improvement: QR-Codes can now contain static text elements with line breaks
Improvement: Optimised cut and stack assistant
Improvement: Better onboarding for automatic activated Adobe Cloud fonts
Improvement: Memory Management
Improvement: Added a setting to the preferences > editor to disable file extension check for downloaded images
Fixed: An issue where data column selection wasn’t possible if only one data column was in the data source
Fixed: QR-Code generation leading to error 404032
Fixed: Unknown error when having automatic activated Adobe Cloud fonts in the layout document
Fixed: Special Characters in V-Card 2.1 are encoded wrong for iPhone devices by Adobe InDesign. We changed the generation of QR-Code to fix this InDesign issue
Fixed: QR-Code containing “#SPACE#” instead of a space character in rare cases
Fixed: “Individual records per documents” was deactivated in rare cases (where it shouldn’t be)
Fixed: Sometimes the wrong setup name was displayed in the preview panel (although the correct one was used)
Fixed: Removed unnecessary error messages on creating previews of QR-Codes

Version 1.8.2

2022-02-04

Fixed: UI Tweak: Issue with calculation in export view (no impact on merged files)
Fixed: On showing the editor preview for the first time after app launch it wasn’t possible to click through the records
Fixed: Newline character wasn’t applied properly inside Text QR-Code for “Merge all records in one document” mode
Fixed: Visual glitches
Fixed: “Setup additional data merge tags manually” function for multiple records per document didn’t work in some cases
Fixed: QR-Codes in some configurations did not correctly apply custom object style if set
Fixed: “Optimize QR-Codes for print” now correctly creates PDF QR-Codes if disabled (didn’t work in some cases)
Fixed: QR-Code containing technical replacement strings like #LINEBREAK# in some cases – now correctly replaced by newline/linebreak
Fixed: Black QR-Codes were placed without a safe space in rare cases
Fixed: Preview of “Datasource entry” element showed technical replacement strings like #LINEBREAK# in some cases
Fixed: “Individual records per documents” option was deactivated in rare cases
Changed: Removed “Space (replace)” option in preferences > import > linebreak import Excel (was confusing)
Improved: QR-Code generation (can now contain individually placed linebreaks by static text element)
Improved: Translations in german
Updated: Internal Help files

Version 1.8.1

2022-02-03

Fixed: CSV files wrong record detection for less than 40 records in free version
Internal improvements

Version 1.8

2021-12-20

Improved: Application data protection
Internal improvements

Version 1.7.2.2

2021-10-05

New: Native arm64 support for M1 Macs
New: Compatibility with macOS 12 (Monterey)
Improved: Updater
Internal improvements

Version 1.6.16

2021-10-05

Fixed: Issue where “Expert Mode” didn’t enable “layout provided” option
Fixed: “Allow empty” for image replacements failed with error 404032 on macOS BigSur
Internal improvements

Version 1.6.15

2021-09-25

Fixed: Error 404400 “An error appeared while trying to apply a text style” when trying to do a multiple records per document merge in rare cases
Internal improvements

Version 1.6.15.1