Indesign Data Merge Question

[Stephen Marsh]

Kyle, I tried the grep string in CS3, it comes back with an error that a match can't be found - a screenshot is attached below.

Stephen Marsh

[Stephen Marsh]

Attached is a CS3 .zip archive containing the INDD file before running the datamerge and after running the datamerge - including the Unicode UTF16 .csv database file.

Stephen Marsh

[kyle]

Stephen,

You need to add a colon before "print."

[gg2017]

Kyle...thanks for posting about this. I did try to use GREP before I posted but I didn't know what the hell I was doing. You are correct about my file setup. I will report back tomorrow after I get back to work and try this new information. The client said I could just delete the Chinese characters for this run, so thats what I did to get the job done friday. I'll try this and see how it goes on following orders. Thanks again for all the help to both of you.

[Schnitzel]

I had the same problem as you, when producing variable data jobs with mixed Hebrew and English characters.
To phrase it simply: I wanted InDesign to use a specific font for the Hebrew text, and another for the English text. Neither InDesign nor my VDP plugin (InData) had a way to set this preference.

As you suspected, I finally opened the Hebrew font in FontLab, pasted the English font's glyphs at the appropriate character range, saved it as a new OpenType font, and voilà! Using this single new font, InDesign automatically takes the correct glyphs for every language in the text. Maybe the open-source FontForge editor will work too.

By the way, I have no idea whether copying/pasting the glyphs violates the license agreement of both fonts, but I couldn't find a better way to solve this, and at the bottom line, I am using the fonts as they were, it's just a small hack behind the scenes to make life easier...

[Stephen Marsh]

Thanks Kyle, I obviously missed that colon, cheers - it all works correctly now!

Stephen Marsh