🚀 go-pugleaf

The good old days, eh, Harbs? Here's a CS2 version. It skips footnotes (because you can't do this kind of thing in footnotes in CS2) and tables.

Peter



#target indesign

picture_dir = '/d/' 
app.findPreferences = app.changePreferences = null; 
myStories = app.activeDocument.stories; 
for (i = 0; i < myStories.length; i++) 
   { 
   picnames = myStories[i].contents.match (/@.+?@/g); 
   if (picnames != null) 
      { 
      for (j = 0; j < picnames.length; j++) 
         { 
         found = app.activeDocument.search (picnames[j],false,false); 
         for (k = found.length-1; k > -1; k--) 
            { 
            try 
               { 
               filename = found[k].contents.replace (/@/g, ""); 
               found[k].insertionPoints[-1].place (File (picture_dir + filename)); 
               found[k].remove(); 
               } 
            catch(_){} 
            } 
         } 
      } 
   }