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Started by Matthew_Schmiedl
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:47
Automatically place images within multiple InDesign documents
Author: Matthew_Schmiedl
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:47
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:47
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I work for a publishing company of agricultural trade magazines and work on few titles each month. We are trying to streamline our production procedures and previous company I worked for had a script they used to place images within text pages by searching for the file name, however there were some limitations with this script (it would only work within 1 InDesign document and only within 1 InDesign story at a time). The company I am with now breaks out each editorial story into separate InDesign files and we place image boxes when the display ads are going to go. For our purposes now, I am looking for a script that, once all of the image boxes were tagged with the image file names, could search between multiple InDesign documents in a folder and automatically place all the images for us. Is anything like this available or able to be created? If so, would it have the capacity to search between multiple InDesign documents and search the entire document for the image file names? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Re: Automatically place images within multiple InDesign documents
Author: Robert Tkaczyk
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:39
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:39
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hi what platform - PC or MAC ? robin -- www.adobescripts.com
Re: Automatically place images within multiple InDesign documents
Author: Matthew_Schmiedl
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:23
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:23
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that - We work on Mac Version 3.0.4
Re: Automatically place images within multiple InDesign documents
Author: Matthew_Schmiedl
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:24
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:24
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My apologies, I copied the wrong thing (to many things going on at the moment! lol) the version is 10.4.11, not 3.0.4. Thanks!
Re: Automatically place images within multiple InDesign documents
Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:46
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:46
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...once all of the image boxes were tagged with the image file names...
How were they tagged: in labels panel, by XML tags or in some other way?
Is anything like this available or able to be created?
Certainly, such a script can be created.
A few days ago there was a discussion on replacing file names in text with inline images:
Kasyan Servetsky, "Positioning Inline images? [CS3 JS WIN]" #3, 13 Feb 2009 10:36 am </webx?14@@.3bbf275d.59b7e7c8/2>
Do you want to revise your old script to process all stories in every document that located in some folder? If so, post it.
Kasyan
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