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David Richter
ParticipantAn update to the above comment ^^
Step 2 is only relevant if you’re using a Merged Document. One detail I forgot about all this is that I was using a merged document because I initially thought that was like flattening layers in a PSD, or something… nope, everything is still there. In fact, it seems to get more complicated after merging as tags are created.
Unmerged document: https://images2.imgbox.com/b5/cc/JmC8X4vV_o.png
Merged document: https://images2.imgbox.com/36/cb/RuIzAgr2_o.pngParticipant“A Solution to Finding Bad Placeholders”
That’s it, right there! That fixed the problem – thank you! Though, I went a little further: in the tags panel (which I’m told is for XML), it actually lists ALL of the DM tags – so, I deleted all those and replaced it with “Root” (replace with “none” isn’t an option). I’m not sure if this step is necessary, but I kinda wanted all references to old placeholders gone.
For anyone else with this issue, in ID: window > interactive > hyperlinks > lists all your DM tags and allows you to delete them
For the 2nd step (which might not be needed): window > utilities > tags > also shows all your DM tags, but you have to “replace” rather than delete… I’m not 100% sure, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I replaced everything with “root” because it seemed like the most obvious choice after “none” (which isn’t an option)ParticipantSorry… yes, it *is* a Data Merge document (though, I was under the impression that ID used XML in the DMing process).
Just to summarize again: I have a document with a bunch of DM placeholders. I need to make a new version of this document, but with slightly different placeholders (some the same, some changed) – but no matter what I do, ID still seems to be expecting the same placeholders and is now refusing to preview…. even during troubleshooting with a new data source with only one entry/record (the current date) and a single (1) placeholder on one page – it still says there are placeholders it can’t find. The thing is: as soon as I link the data source, before I link any placeholders, it remembers what page certain tags were used on – even though the placeholders are all gone, the data source removed and then replaced with a different one.
All I want is a way to make it as though I never applied any DM tags at all… and there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that, or it’s so obvious that I’m overlooking it.
Screen shot showing no placeholder, while ID claiming there is: https://images2.imgbox.com/cd/cc/FclLqaLj_o.pngParticipantAs far as I know animated GIFs aren’t supported in PDFs – you could try converting to MP4, perhaps.
There’s an article about this very subject on this very site…
https://indesignsecrets.com/animated-gifs-indesign.php
(and yes, converting to MP4 seems to be an option)
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