Composed strings

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A composed string, such as used in a composite field, an output file specification or a PDF password can contain embedded field names enclosed in curly brackets e.g. Dear {name}. The value of the field is substituted at the time of invoking the string e.g. when constructing an output file name. As well as the user-defined fields there are certain special ones:

_{

An opening curly bracket.

_}

A closing curly bracket.

_bates

The bates page number as defined in the Configuration|Layout dialogue.

_bin

The current output bin number.

_ext or

_iext

The original (input) file extension (including dot).

_name or

_iname

The file name stem of the original (input) file.

_id

Unique numeric ID; used to construct the default output file name: {_title}{id}

_oext

The output file extension (including dot).

_oname

The file name stem of the output file.

_opath

The full path of the output file.

_orient

The orientation of the page.

_page

The current page number.

_paper

The name of the paper used for the page e.g. LETTER

_path or

_ipath

The full path of the original (input) file.

_sheets

The number of pieces of paper that have been output.

_title

The job title; used to construct the default output file name: {_title}{_id}

_tray

The current input tray number.

_cr

Carriage return (character 13 decimal, 0D hex).

_lf

Line feed (character 10 decimal, 0D hex).

_crlf

Carriage return & line feed (0D0A hex).

 



See also

Filenames and wildcards

Setting options for PDF export