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Re: InDesign CS2: Test graphics for item layer
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Re: InDesign CS2: Test graphics for item layer


  • Subject: Re: InDesign CS2: Test graphics for item layer
  • From: David Wolfe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:43:25 -0400

I've now gotten past the delete part with

	delete graphic 1 of theWarning

Now the problem seems to be this: my test document has three images. One on the "base" layer, one on the "art" layer, and one on the "Text" layer. It seems that the repeat loop is setting a counter up for three iterations, but it's duplicating the one item that's on "Text" once for each of the three repeats, instead of testing each one for the layer.

Does that make sense? Anyone have any pointers?

Thanks,
David

On Sep 5, 2008, at 6:27 PM, David Wolfe wrote:

I got past this challenge by adding "as page item"

		set myGraphics to all graphics of active document as page item
		if (count myGraphics) > 0 then

			tell active document
				repeat with i from 1 to count of myGraphics
					if name of item layer of page item i is "Text" then
						set theWarning to duplicate page item i
						set item layer of theWarning to "On Text"
						delete image of theWarning
						set content type of theWarning to unassigned


My next challenge is figuring out how to delete the content of the duplicated graphic. You can't set the content type to unassigned unless it doesn't have any content, but I can't figure out how to delete the image within the frame.


Anyone?

Thanks,
David

On Sep 5, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote:

David>I've put together the code below. When the script reaches
"if name of item layer of i is. . ."

it errors, stating, "Can't get item layer of 1."

repeat with i from 1 to count of myGraphics


The error your getting is due to the construct of your repeat loop.

In this loop:

repeat with i from 1 to count of myGraphics

The variable i has a value of 1 then 2 then 3 etc. each time the loop is
executed.


You literally asking for the layer of the integer 1, which trips the error.

"if name of item layer of graphic i is. . ."

Is closer to what you want, but in CS2, item layer is not a property of
graphic, so that probably won't work.


You may need to try something like this:

(totally untested)

repeat with thisGraphic in myGraphics
repeat with x from 1 to count of item layers
 if thisGraphic is in item layer x then
    set LayerName to name of item layer x
    exit repeat
 end if
end repeat

HTH,
ES

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