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  • 2020-12-11 at 4:23 pm #15424
    Pat
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    No worries :) just let me know if it works for you

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    2020-12-11 at 4:26 pm #15425
    John MacLulich
    Member

    In order to create the Multiple Record Indesign file… is it just a case of duplicating the page n times?

    2020-12-11 at 4:30 pm #15426
    Pat
    Staff

    Its one way of doing it. You can either have multiple instances of the same page – OR multiple instances of a set of pages OR multiple instances of a group of items to unlock this option.
    Find more information for the last example here: Multiple records with sets

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    2020-12-11 at 4:54 pm #15427
    John MacLulich
    Member

    I notice that in your latest package, the output that is generated contains an extra digit after the first $ sign. I cannot see where that is coming from.

    URL: http://files.coloursdigital.com.au/_s8BddS9VcgEV5R
    File: Screen Shot 2020-12-12 at 2.52.57 am.png
    Size: 129 KB

    2020-12-11 at 5:27 pm #15428
    John MacLulich
    Member

    You asid earlier:

    I sent you another zip containing a project and InDesign file going down to<b> 0,25 seconds per record. So round about 4-5 Minutes for 1000 records. (we just exported 1000 records in 4 Minutes, 38 seconds)</b>

    I must be doing something wrong. I used your second package and exported to PDF and it took 8m and 29s to export only 250 records.

    Is exporting to IDD faster than to PDF?

    2020-12-11 at 6:14 pm #15429
    John MacLulich
    Member

    I’ve tried a range of options, now – exporting to IDD or to PDF; in batches of 50 records or 100 records; rebooting IDD; rebooting MDM – and the best I have achieved is 300 records in 11mins. And I frequently got a “timeout” error, communicating with IDD.

    I simply cannot get anywhere near your speed of 4-5 minutes for the whole 1000 records.

    And it’s not like I am on a slow Mac, either: almost new MacBook Pro.

    My problem is that I have got 29 of these “projects” to complete in the next 36hrs. All the same IDD file – just different Data files. By my count, even if I can get it to run without glitching, it will take me 22hrs non-stop. And then I need to combine the multiple PDF files for each Project back to a single PDF file of 1000pp, for printing.

    Perhaps MDM is not the software to accomplish this, after all?

    2020-12-11 at 6:30 pm #15430
    Pat
    Staff

    Hi John,

    I assume this is a environment issue. We can run your project wit data file for 1000 records on even older machines.
    First confusing thing: your project shows you export to InDesign so we optimized your project on that. Now you say you need PdFs so i need to ask again: Whats the final goal:
    PDFs? Printing on own printer?

    Please try: Save on Harddisk of your machine, not any subfolder of Desktop nor external drive. It is a known issues on macOS side to slow things dow .

    Whats the speed of the export when you use OUR submitted file without any change to it just saving like mentioned above?

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2020-12-11 at 6:40 pm #15431
    John MacLulich
    Member

    Final output is print. So PDF is preferred. Single file even better. I was sure I hadn’t even tried export to IDD, so I am surprised what I sent in the package had those settings.

    I am running your file, as supplied, now, to see what speed I achieve when writing to the local Documents folder. It seems to be approx 35s per batch of 50 records, which equates to about 10-12 mins for 1,000 records – and that is creating 20 IDD files, that I would then have to open and export to PDF. It is certainly faster writing to the internal HDD.

    2020-12-11 at 6:44 pm #15432
    John MacLulich
    Member

    PDFs to send to our Fiery RIP is the objective – to be imposed on the RIP. We could even strip out the entire background and only create PDFs of the variable data fields if that would be faster. We could then re-combine master and variable PDFs on the RIP. The resultant PDFs should be smaller, too.

    2020-12-11 at 6:46 pm #15433
    Pat
    Staff

    Its often just one or two things (mostly not on MyDataMerges side) so im not willing to give up yet if you don’t want to. :)

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    2020-12-11 at 6:48 pm #15434
    John MacLulich
    Member

    I’ve been at this for the last 5hrs – and it is almost dawn here, now. 4:47am in Sydney, Australia !

    I would really to find a solution for the morning shift to keep going !

    2020-12-11 at 6:49 pm #15435
    John MacLulich
    Member

    I’m still stumped by that extra digit after the first “$” symbol.

    2020-12-11 at 6:51 pm #15436
    John MacLulich
    Member

    The file has just finished and is making the IDD book file. Total time 14mins 59secs

    2020-12-11 at 6:55 pm #15437
    John MacLulich
    Member

    Export IDD book to PDF is averaging 1 page per second – so roughly another 15 minutes.

    2020-12-11 at 7:03 pm #15438
    Pat
    Staff

    Im on it and will check on how to speed up things and identify the extra digit.
    Not to make any promises – if its an InDesign issue with your environment you will not get any InDesign tool nor script doing this faster.

    Official MyDataMerge Team

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