RE: INDESIGN/PHOTOSHOP: Finding Multi-layered Images
RE: INDESIGN/PHOTOSHOP: Finding Multi-layered Images
- Subject: RE: INDESIGN/PHOTOSHOP: Finding Multi-layered Images
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:18:45 -0700
Title: RE: INDESIGN/PHOTOSHOP: Finding Multi-layered
Images
I got it. It's not listed in properties, but if a layer exists,
getting graphic layer 1 of graphic layer options of an image will
work. If it's flat, that will error. So a stub script is:
So th
tell application
"Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
tell document 1
set vList to all
graphics
set vLayeredFiles to
{}
repeat with vItem in
vList
tell graphic layer options of vItem
try
set end of vLayeredFiles to graphic
layer 1
on error
set end of vLayeredFiles to "FLAT"
end try
end tell
end repeat
end tell
return vLayeredFiles
end tell
Rick Gordon
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On 8/30/13 at 1:04 AM -0700, Rick Gordon wrote in a message
entitled
"INDESIGN/PHOTOSHOP: Finding Multi-layered
Images":
I'm trying to find a way to bulk search a
group of files (which would all be PSDs) to determine which of them is
not flattened. Even better to flag only files that have at least two
layers or if single-layered, does not contain a smart
object.
But I suspect that just finding
unflattened images and then ignoring simple single layers might be
easier.
I'd really like to do it without having
to open the images, which would be time-consuming.
Since the images are placed in a group of
InDesign documents (which are referenced in a book document), I was
thinking that parsing each doc for all images and then searching for
graphic layers might be the way to go. But I'm confused as to what is
the parent of a graphic layer. The dictionary says:
graphic layer n :
A layer in a PSD image or PDF file.
contains events, event
listeners, graphic layers; contained by graphic layers, graphic
layer options.
And I can get the graphic layer options
of an image, but I don't see any graphic layer
properties.
What am I missing here, or am I barking
up the wrong tree?
I'm open to a non-InDesign approach here,
too. But having to have Photoshop open every image to return a result
seems uninviting.
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