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Hi,

It's been awhile since I've worked in Quark.  Is it possible to do a mail merge in Quark 8 or 9?

TM

Sure you can! Matthias posted a tutorial and the material along a while back. You can find the 6:30-minute video here. HTH.

Jean-Marie Schwartz:

Matthias posted a tutorial…

 Now I can put a voice with the name.

Wow!  This worked....I had to quickly learn how to code xml.  lol  Thanks lynda.com

One issue...I have a field called address2.  Some records have an address2 line but some don't.  How do I get rid of that gap.  Any idea.  Researching now....

Thanks for the video!

 You have to use a third party software for validating the xml file (there are a lot, just google).

I figured it out how to do it Quark.  On the placeholder tab of the placeholder pallet you have to enter a hard return (\p) in the suffix field.

 So instead of your fields looking like this in Quark

<ADDR1>

<ADDR2>

<PHONE>

<CELL>

it will look like this when adding the hard returns in the placeholder pallet for each of the fields.  If a field is blank it will ignore the space.

<addr1><addr2><phone><cell>

Can Quark add into mail merge - bitmaps? If it works only with text?

lewaw:

Can Quark add into mail merge - bitmaps?

Yes, of course.

You find it on page 7 in the XMl documentation on your harddrive (QuarkXPress folder, subfolder Documents).

Regards
Matthias

Matthias Guenther (Quark):

Yes, of course.

You find it on page 7 in the XMl documentation on your harddrive (QuarkXPress folder, subfolder Documents).

Hi Matthias,

I found this page and I see that it works. - Thank You

But I have 2 question yet.

1. Can Quark join text with pictures in one mail merge? (for example any photo - person and names, phone number etc.)

EDIT: ok I know how join, I found solution.

2. How prepare xml files with good structure for Quark mail merge - which soft?, because manually in notepad it is too long way.

Regards

Hi lewaw,

creating XML easily is a challenge. FOr larger workflows we have Quark XML Author, however that is probably overkill for a mail merge in QuarkXPress.

I normally write these by hand, you could also look at editors like BBEdit or XML Mind XML Editor, the latter I believe is free for personal use.

Regards
Matthias

 Thank You :-)

 Hi,

You can try THIS utility (there are examples and manuals included). It's working with simple copy/paste.

BUT you need to validate your resulting XML file (there are many free/open source apps - just google). You need also to read about reserved words/signs to avoid errors.

HTH

Regards

max.peter:

You can try THIS utility (there are examples and manuals included). It's working with simple copy/paste.

O! it is super!. I thought before that Quark is not good in print/mail merge, but I see now, that He can do for example badges for 1000 people with photos. Quark surprises.

This converter is simple and can convert csv to xml. :-) 

Thank You

 You're welcom!

 It works but when I have separate xml file.

When I have all in one file like this not.

Where is my mistake?

 DTD

   <!ELEMENT persone (person)>
   <!ELEMENT person (name, secondname, job)>
   <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
   <!ELEMENT secondname (#PCDATA)>
   <!ELEMENT job (#PCDATA)>

 ------------------------------------------

 XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE persone SYSTEM "quark1.dtd">
<persone>

<person>
<name>person1</name>
<secondname>person1</secondname>
<job>person1</job>
</person>

<person>
<name>person2</name>
<secondname>person2</secondname>
<job>person2</job>
</person>

<person>
<name>person3</name>
<secondname>person3</secondname>
<job>person3</job>
</person>

</persone>

-----------------------------------

 I got info: Element person is not valid for content model '(person)' [10093]

Regards