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Hello everyone!
I am a game designer and I am currently prototyping a board game. I've only just discovered the "Data Merge" option in InDesign and it's pretty handy for iterating and printing cards quickly.
The problem is that I would like to know if it is possible to add some kind of special characters like emojy but personalized. For example, for one of my cards I would have "Win 3 gold coins" and "gold coins" will be just a icon, then in my exel / Gsheet file I would have "Win 3 'gc' ", and 'gc' would refer to an image that would be automatically integrated into the text.
I have seen this solution which seems close to what I am looking for but, I don't really know how to replace the smiley faces with icons that I would have created myself.
I don't even know if this is possible.
I'm not really shure that's InDesign related but it's seems to be a great place to ask.
It's going to be a bit fastidious but at least it's working !
Thanks !
I'll wait if someone have a better option, but if not, i'll tag that as a "correct answer"
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You can set up an image field in your data that will pull the images you name directly into an image frame.
Have the header of the column begin with @ to make this happen. In Excel, you will have to use '@ to prevent Excel from seeing the @ as part of a formula. For instance '@image
It will then show in the Data Merge panel as an image field
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Not 100% automatic, but you can choose a pair of symbols to represent each symbol, and then use Find > Change to replace each set of symbols with the icons by copying each one to the clipboard and:
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It's going to be a bit fastidious but at least it's working !
Thanks !
I'll wait if someone have a better option, but if not, i'll tag that as a "correct answer"
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One idea would be to built an SVG color font with your icons.
But do not ask me what tools exactly you need for this. Also: This would result in RGB colors…
Hm. Maybe that will help:
https://glyphsapp.com/learn/creating-an-svg-color-font
But also note that SVG color fonts are "experimental technology" with InDesign.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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Thanks !
It's look a bit hard to do but yea, I'll try, that might do the trick . I'll try soon .