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Work web won't let me onto your link! But I will grab it from home tonight.
Thanks, I will have a look at it.
Meanwhile I think I see where you're coming from. At present my export
fields are calculated for each product, so it's something like ProductName,
return, (ID tags) ProductDescription, return, (ID Tags) Was price (ID Tags)
Now price
There is also built in to the calculation a line which says: ' if this is
the first found record, put the header field followed by a return at the
top' - the header field includes the <ASCII-Mac> line and all the paragraph
and character style definition for InDesign. So I think all the returns in
that would need to be 'proper' returns, which means each line would have to
be a separate field, if I'm understanding you correctly.
Then all the export fields would need to be concatenated into one, and for
the life of me I can't think how to do that. I'm probably missing something
very obvious. I mean I need to put 'export field' from each found record
into a single record and export that, along with the various 'header
fields'. Of course those would all need to be in a separate table, which is
fine. But how to combine them??
(I'm always exporting quite a small subset of the entire database, only the
products which occur on a given page of a given catalogue)
If the above makes any sense at all, which I doubt, I hope you can point me
to the obvious solution!
> I suspect the problem you describe is the result of two apparently
> conflicting requirements:
>
> 1. InDesign tagged files require the start tag, eg, <ASCII-MAC> be the
> entire first paragraph.
>
> 2. We want to convert FileMaker's internal representation of the
> carriage return into <0x000D>.
>
> So if we assemble all the export text in a field, then convert FM's
> returns to the ID tag, we no longer have the ID start tag on its own
> line, and upon import ID doesn't recognise the file as tagged text.
>
> A workaround is to export 2 records: the first contains ONLY the
> InDesign Tagged Text start tag, and the second record contains the
> rest of the export text compiled from your database, with returns and
> tabs substituted for ID tags. You might choose to create a special
> Export table to hold these two records. Doing it this way means the
> return that FM inserts between records in the export file is retained,
> and hence the ID start tag line is maintained.
>
> I've uploaded a (very basic) example to my iDisk:
>
>
http://files.me.com/tlm/69p0zx
>
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