Right to Left Multiple Records?

[greiss]

Hi,

Is anyone knows if I can change the order of multiple records in data merge so they will flow inside the page from the right top corner to the left instead of LTR?

Thanks,

Ran

[Mike Witherell]

Have you tried installing and using the Middle Eastern version of InDesign?

[amaarora · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Do you intend to change the below shown order?

I do not think it is possible within InDesign presently. But do file a feature request here. Feature Request/Bug Report Form

-Aman

[Laubender]

amaarora  wrote

… I do not think it is possible within InDesign presently. …

Hi Aman,

it's doable—sort of—but requires an extra step after creating the merged document.

1. Let's start with a document where the page is mirrored horizontally. The page, not the contents. So uncheck that contents will move with the page. You do that with the Page Tool and with the Transformation menu. From my German InDesign that is "Horizontal spiegeln" with the Page Tool:

2. Next step would be to do the merge. I used a small source text file with only one column of entries called "Value" and with 32 records, just numbers that count from 1 to 32:

Result was this:

What's left to do?

3. Mirror the result pages horizontally without moving the contents:

But that also means, you have to do it for every result page:

InDesign CS6 and above.

Regards,
Uwe

[twin-owl]

thank you! looks promising for me. I will test this when I get my data.

[Laubender]

Here a look to the document where the result pages are not mirrored anymore:

With a large number of pages this workflow is doable but requires a lot extra work with the un-mirroring of the pages.

Regards,
Uwe

[twin-owl]

I just tested this with some sample data and it seems to work! Also, looks like you can zoom out, hold shift and select then flip multiple pages back at a time. Brilliant!

Thanks!

[Laubender]

twin-owl  wrote
… looks like you can zoom out, hold shift and select then flip multiple pages back at a time.

Very good!

The multi-select of pages escaped my attention.

Regards,
Uwe

[ahmede20124086]

thansk alot
it worked even with arabic language 

[greiss]

Thanks, I did assign a request just now.

[twin-owl]

I need this as well. I need it to print the backs of price tags. Has there been a solution found?

thanks