The plug-in arranges the pages in the correct order for printing - double-sided and ready for folding. Plug-in Pack also includes a lowly apprentice production’s InBooklet SE tool to create folded brochures. That means you can’t insert or remove words condition-ally (say, to create a form letter addressed to both individuals and couples). This process is similar to using Microsoft Word’s Mail Merge feature, except that Data Merge has no way to set up conditions for variable-text handling. Just set up a comma-delimited or tab-delimited text file with your data (text and/or links to images), and import the data into InDesign. The most useful plug-in of the pack is Data Merge, which lets you create documents featuring variable text, form letters, catalogs, and business cards. Though it’s marketed as a transition aid for PageMaker users, the pack isn’t a bridge from PageMaker rather, it’s a collection of PageMaker tools that InDesign should have featured in the first place, along with some InDesign interface enhancements. PageMaker lives on, sort of, via the new PageMaker Plug-in Pack that adds to InDesign CS eight PageMaker modules, three of which are from version 7. Even with the new InDesign CS, Adobe is not quite ready to let go. InDesign long ago overtook PageMaker as Adobe’s publishing flagship, but the company has let the OS 9–only PageMaker 7 languish on life support.
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