InDesign’s Data Merge requires a CSV of all items to be placed as variable in the layout.
#INDESIGN DATA MERGE PLACEHOLDER HOW TO#
Now I’ll overview how to compose the layout and auto-generate all map layouts. Here’s the collar it’s created in illustrator and placed into the master page in InDesign. Page-based definition queries are leveraged to show the appropriate breach location and notes, then each map is exported as an individual PDF. The vector layer is laid out in ArcMap to fit the layout and data driven pages is used to create a series of maps for each breach. This is the vector base layer alone on the map layout. The main map frame consists of 4 parts – the vector base, the background image, the depth raster, and the breach label. Now I’ll overview how each component is created. I’m going to break down this layout into it’s components then show you how they are pushed into InDesign to auto-generate each of the 25 breach scenario maps. I’ll break down the maximum depth layout – it’s nothing too special, it’s a pretty standard engineering type layout – but I’ll add some extra features to elevate the design as much as possible. These serve crucially as the index features that drive the map automation I’m going to show.Įach breach scenario is mapped in 3 ways, at the extent of the corresponding Reclamation District. Each is basically an island surrounded by a ring levee.
This project involves mapping a series of 25 hypothetical levee breaches for about a dozen Reclamation Districts. This example involves the project area shown here – Sacramento County’s California Delta. I use this workflow a lot, it allows high volume map production that doesn’t sacrifice interesting design elements. I’m going to show you a workflow that leverages Data Merge in InDesign. I’m co-owner and lone cartographer at Dynamic Planning + Science. I’ll try to post the video of the presentation from NACIS when available as well.
#INDESIGN DATA MERGE PLACEHOLDER PDF#
If you really want it, here’s a big PDF of my slide deck, with video embedded but no notes (might want to right-click and download that link, it’s ~150GB). The presentation doesn’t translate perfectly to a long form blog post but I wanted to get the workflow down on the blog and the slides notes are close enough to what I said during the presentation. I don’t use much text in my slides, I try to keep it to imagery and talk to that, so I’ve included my commentary where possible inline with each slide image/video. Below is each slide image and video I used in my presentation. I presented a workflow using ArcMap, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign this year at NACIS.
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