Reply To: Simple script to open and save file

October 12, 2017 at 5:32 am #98827

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Hi Morgan,

It’s pretty simple but you have to create a new file object for both the template you’re opening and file you’re saving before you can open/save. Example code is below. Hope this helps, and good luck!

//create a new file object for the template var templateFile = new File("~/Desktop/test.indt"); //where ~/Desktop is a username-independent path to the desktop //open template var template = app.open(templateFile);


//create a new file object for the test01 file

var docFile = new File("~/Desktop/test01.indd");

//save as. NOTE: This will overwrite without asking, so be careful

var doc = template.save(docFile)
//do stuff in file here
//close and save doc file

doc.close(SaveOptions.YES)

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