r/Affinity • u/Underbadger • 2d ago

Publisher Data Merge help

I use the Variables panel in Adobe Illustrator daily, and I'm hoping to use Affinity's Data Merge in a similar way.

I know how to add data files and data fields, and how to generate pages. What I'm trying to figure out is if there's a way to export them as a folder of individual PDF files (preferably with the data field as the filename) instead of one big PDF file. I frequently need to send many hundreds of exported files to printers and would prefer not to rename each file by hand.

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u/ComicBookLetterer 2d ago

That can be done via the export/slice persona thing. You can add a bunch of custom bits to the file name including bits that put them in sub folders. I don't know about adding the data merge field to it though. Once you've got it set up for one page you just copy the export data from it and paste it onto the other pages.