Is it possible to use # or [ in the filename generated by a script.

[Alexandre Becquet]

Hello everyone. Being completely new in the world of scripting for Indesign I have a question and in my opinion it will not be the last!!! as in the topic of this post : Is it possible to use # or [ in the filename generated by a script.

It's a script made by an other guy and the client ask me if it's possible. I'm not really sure it's possible to ad # or [ in the filename generated by a script with a good export.

thank you

[Peter Kahrel]

Yes, you can. But my gut feeling is that avoid brackets are best avoided. No good argument for it though.

P.

[Alexandre Becquet]

Thank you @Peter Kahrel  That's what I thought but I prefer to tell my client to avoid this nomenclature with # and [ for a good execution of the script and to avoid errors.

[Test Screen Name]

If relevant, you can't use # in the name of a file on a web site. (This is a limitation of web sites, not InDesign).

[Laubender]

Hi Alexandre,

didn't we have an issue discussed lately here in the forum where an InDesign document's file name was the cause for an issue with hyperlinks to external page destinations in other InDesign documents?

Ah yes, see:

Issue with creating Hyperlink to another indd document
N.Coward, Jan 14, 2022
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/issue-with-creating-hyperlink-to-another-indd-do...

Quoting the OP from that thread:

"Looks like I have figured it out with..

My content page started with a hyphen ' - ' at the beginning of the file name. Removing that now lets me pick it as a document and link too and strangely now all the others ones work too."

Did not test this, but it seems one can run into issues with a hyphen at the start of a document's name.

So yes, I would avoid # and brackets in a file name.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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