[CS3 AS] Replace color

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2 total messages Started by Kermy Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:07

#1688

Author: Kermy
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:07

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Hi - new to applescript.

I want to replace "White": with the Paper color
I'm missing something - why isn't this working for me?:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
    delete swatch "White" replacing with swatch "Paper"
end tell

Also, it might be "WHITE", "White" or "white" is there as way to do that in one step?

Re: [CS3 AS] Replace color

#1690

Author: Shane_Stanley
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:13

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On 4/2/09 8:07 AM, "Kermy" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote:

> tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
>     delete swatch "White" replacing with swatch "Paper"
> end tell 

This is targetted at the application -- if you want to do it in a document,
you need to insert "tell document 1".
> 
> Also, it might be "WHITE", "White" or "white" is there as way to do that in
> one step? 

You'll need to do something like get the name of every swatch, then loop
through doing a comparison inside an "ignoring case" construct. Something
like this:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
    tell document 1
        set colorNames to name of swatches whose name is not ""
        ignoring case
            repeat with i from 1 to count of colorNames
                if item i of colorNames = "White" then
                    delete swatch (item i of colorNames) replacing with
swatch "Paper"
                end if
            end repeat
        end ignoring
    end tell
end tell


-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

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