I use data merge to create sales tags with different offers and different sizes. It also merges in the individual filename for each page. Everything works perfectly. Until now… the printer I outsource to changed their process.
When we export the files a special character is added to the filename where the data merge field is. I can’t see it on my mac, but when it is put on the printer’s PC server it adds an underscore where the character is. If you arrow through the file name you can see where it skips over another character, you just can’t see it.
So my current solution is to arrow through the filename, copy the extra ‘space’, and do a batch rename files in finder by finding the extra ’space’ and replacing it with nothing.
notes:
when you copy the data merge field into find/replace, this character “^|” appears where the field brackets are.
filename in indesign
[filename]
filename in find/replace
^|filename^|
filename in finder
filename.pdf
filename in pc server
filename_.pdf
I would like to be able to find/change it in indesign but trying to change this character “^|” does not work. Has anyone ever seen this and/or have any ideas?
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