Automating PDF filenaming with InDesign?

[ryanjg]

I have successfully used the Merge Data feature in InDesign CS2 to create 30 customized newsletters, each with the customer's name along the top. When I go to merge this data, of course I get one InDesign file with 30 pages.

I would like to then automate the process of individually printing each one of these pages and naming the PDF filename by the customer, say ACME_Date.pdf.

Right now, I have to go to the print window, select the page range, print, manually enter a filename, and so on.

Is there any tool built-in to InDesign, or perhaps a third-party extension that would allow this?

 

[RegistrationMark]

I'm not sure of any plug-ins, but what you can do that's fairly painless, is make the 30 page PDF out of InDesign

then in Acrobat use Document--Extract Pages to make 30 individual PDFs,

then in Bridge go to Tools--Batch Rename to name them what you want.

Mark