🚀 go-pugleaf

Hey, that was almost easy ... makes me suspicious. I copied most of the new stuff straight from Shirley Hopkins' book:



set theHD to (path to startup disk as string) 
set theFolder to theHD & "Photos" 
tell application "Finder" 
	set fileList to name of every file of folder theFolder 
end tell

set frameCounter to 1

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2" 
	tell document 1 
		set theMaster to master spread 1 -- needed when adding pages later  
		get master page items of page -1 -- overrides items from master  
		-- loop through pics  
		repeat with aPic in fileList 
			-- get name of pic for caption  
			set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters 
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"} 
			set picName to text item -1 of (aPic as text) 
			set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims

			set aPicPath to theFolder & ":" & aPic

			try -- we try, in case there isn't a frame of the right label  
				place aPicPath on rectangle (frameCounter as text) of page -1 
				fit result given proportionally 
				set contents of text frame (frameCounter as text) of page -1 to picName 
			on error -- we've run out of frames on the page  
				set frameCounter to 1 -- reset counter  
				make page at end with properties {applied master:theMaster} -- add page  
				get master page items of page -1 -- override master items  
				place aPicPath on rectangle (frameCounter as text) of page -1 
				fit result given proportionally 
				set contents of text frame (frameCounter as text) of page -1 to picName 
			end try 
			set frameCounter to frameCounter + 1 -- increment counter  
		end repeat 
	end tell 
end tell



This works as a script, not an application. In other words you can run it from within the script editor, so it should give you a better idea of what's going wrong if it breaks.

I re-worked it to assume you have your photos in a folder called "Photos" on the startup disk. If that's too inconvenient, you'll have to re-work the second line. If the photos are in the folder "Kelly" which is in the folder "Jobs", you'll have to change the second line to read



set theFolder to theHD & "Jobs:Kelly"



Make sense? I'd try it w/ a couple of photos, first. Then you can save it as a script to the "scripts" folder in the "InDesign" folder, & run it from within the InDy application.

Good Luck!