A book file is an InDesign feature that manages many documents as one publication. DataMergeStudio can build one from your merge — most usefully, to get continuous page numbering across…
What your exported files are called depends on your merge mode — a comfortable node editor when you produce one document per record, and a simple static name otherwise.
A PDF preset is the recipe that decides how your PDF is built — its quality, colour, and compression. DataMergeStudio uses the same presets you already have in InDesign.
Sometimes you don't want a document at all — you want a file per record in an image or vector format. DataMergeStudio can export your merge as PNG, JPG, or…
Interactive PDF is a separate export filetype, for PDFs meant to be used on screen — where clickable links and interactive elements matter, not just print fidelity.
When your records don't divide evenly into equal stacks, the last stack has to be handled somehow. Cut & Stack offers three ways, each suiting a different finishing setup.
Flow mode runs Layout Flow: your records, packaged as layout blocks, flow across pages like text. It's the mode for catalogs, directories, and price lists — anything continuous.
