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Yes, but then you have to worry about the space between the title and the first name, which won't be suppressed by XMPie. Example: Mr.[SPACE]E. D.[SPACE]Ott. The spaces in brackets won't be suppressed, because you enter them manually. They're not part of the data.

Set up a new content object called "FULLNAME" (or whatevs), and make that object do the following: if(IsNullOrEmpty(|->[title])) { |->[firstname] & " " & |->[lastname] } else { |->[title] & " " &|->[firstname] & " "& |->[lastname] }

You've probably already figured this out by now, but XMPie has a function called "IfNullOrEmpty." You use it like this: if(IsNullOrEmpty(|->[ADDRESSLINE2])) { |->[ADDRESSLINE1] } else { |->[ADDRESSLINE1] & "," }

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Well, I'm not using uProduce or uPlan. We're strictly a uDirect and then output from woefully-underpowered iMac shop. Same thing is happening, and without using 'format date.' I think the next time it happens I'll log a service call and see what story I get. I agree with you, though ... it...

I considered parsing out the values and building a field out of the components early on, but ended up putting my foot down and saying, 'you know what? screw it. They're going to have to fix it.' Why should I have to jump through flaming hoops in order to get the value that's in the database into...

I know you said you're high volume, but is it worth it to crack open the DB and reformat the field that has the date as a 'text' field? Otherwise, we've found that pasting in a row of data that simply says "TEST" in every field will trick uDirect into thinking every field is a text field...

Had this issue pop up recently as well, but no uPlan here -- just using uDirect. The issue arises because the field in the data is set as a 'date.' XMPie reads that and reverses the month/day. Pretty sure that we didn't install the European version of uDirect, too. In one case, I can get...

If there's any transparency in the file, try using PDF-VT out of XMPie. We don't have all that much luck running ppml files out of XMPie if there's any art at all in the file. YMMV. (Really miss .vdx on the NexPress. Oh well.)

Maybe try substituting your "HexToUnicode("9") with "~d009"" (including the quotes). Got this from another forum. It's for Fusion, but that shouldn't really matter when encoding the barcode. Hopefully. Maybe. Good luck. Edit: Here's the link to the post on the fusion forums...

I'm interesting in a number of situations and applications.

XMPie will generate those for you. Page 238 of the uDirect users manual details this operation. Good luck!

My company has tasked me with gathering information regarding Digital Asset Management solutions. We're currently using WebNative, but it's very old, and the cost of upgrading has us looking to other solutions. So, salespeople ... let me have it! You think what you have is better than Web...

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We use an application called Personator to do a lot of this type of thing: Personator - Maintain personalized mailing lists and combine data from different sources with this data management tool It will open up your MS Access db (or other varieties), make a number of adjustments, and save...