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• • November 6, 2019 at 6:50 pm #1194903
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi All,

    I have 20+ planograms to complete this week, and to save it being a tedious process by hand (my employer won’t pay for a proper automation program), it’d be awesome if the process could be automated in ID.

    The process being:

    1. Place assets (Jpgs with clipping paths)
    2. Activate clipping paths and convert to frame for all assets, so that I can align / distribute assets in a product family accurately.
    3. Arrange by hand.

    I know the first two steps can be automated, through data merge and scripting but I am a total scripting noob. I can’t even fathom how to put together a loop for the second step. Or even if it’s possible to script out the whole process, minus the arrangement.

    Any tips?

  • November 6, 2019 at 9:48 pm #14323799
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I think there is a script here on indesignsecrets somewhere that turns on the clipping paths for all images in a document… not sure where to find it, though. Would take some searching.

  • November 6, 2019 at 9:53 pm #14323798
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks David. Before I posted i found this from a user named Kirsten McMillan:

    function resetClippingPath(){
    var allOpenDocs = app.documents;
    for(var m=0;m<allOpenDocs.length;m++){
    var d=allOpenDocs[m];
    var linksIDs = d.links.everyItem().id;
    for(var n=0;n<linksIDs.length;n++){
    try{
    d.links.itemByID(linksIDs[n]).parent.parent.images[0].clippingPath.clippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH;
    }catch(e){};

    };

    };

    };

    But I’d have no idea how to have it also turn the paths into frames. :/

  • November 10, 2019 at 8:18 am #14323737
    Jeremy Howard

    Participant

    Locky, I believe that this is what you are looking for:

    //—–BEGIN SCRIPT—–//
    for(var x=0;x<app.documents.length;x++){
    var currentDoc = app.documents[x];
    var linksIDs = currentDoc.links.everyItem().id;
    for(var n=0;n<linksIDs.length;n++){
    try{
    currentDoc.links.itemByID(linksIDs[n]).parent.parent.images[0].clippingPath.clippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH;
    currentDoc.links.itemByID(linksIDs[n]).parent.parent.images[0].clippingPath.convertToFrame();
    }catch(e){};
    };
    };

    //—–END SCRIPT—–//

    The main thing to focus on here is the addition of this line:
    currentDoc.links.itemByID(linksIDs[n]).parent.parent.images[0].clippingPath.convertToFrame();

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