Re: AS for InDesign - find artwork set to overprint
Re: AS for InDesign - find artwork set to overprint
- Subject: Re: AS for InDesign - find artwork set to overprint
- From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:44:21 +0100
Rose,
Am 17.11.2009 um 15:57 schrieb Rosemary Cantrell:
> Since I have so many files to do this to, is it possible to batch it
> somehow? Or add to the script to do multiple documents? Thanks for
> your help. I really appreciate the guidance.
you can compile your script into an application (i.e. save as application using AppleScript-Editor).
If you have an "on"-handler then you can drag files (or folders) to that application and they will be processed.
This might start out something like this:
on open (theFolders)
set theFolders to {} & theFolders -- make sure it is a list
set theFolder to item 1 of theFolders
display dialog "Convert all files in" & return & POSIX path of theFolder & return & " using my Script?"
set myRef to alias theFolder
set theFiles to list files myRef of extension "tif" -- this uses Satimage OSAX to list all files recursively
repeat with theItem in theFiles
-- do your thing, refer to your subroutine
end repeat
end open
> Also can you tell me what the line -- set AppleScript's text item
> delimiters to {":"} -- means? I followed pretty much what was being
> done until there.
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
set linkName to the last text item of linkPath
AppleScript can take strings apart and uses text item delimiters (actually a list with one element ":") to do so. This will make a list out of a string, where the individual items are defined by the text item delimiters. Since internally AppleScript uses the standard classic Mac conventions for paths (like "Macintosh HD:Users:Thomas:Desktop:Snow Leopard.txt") the last item will be the name of the file, if the text item delimiter is a colon.
Hope this helps
Thomas _______________________________________________
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