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• • December 18, 2019 at 8:43 am #1212962
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi we often have to process large multipage files, and need to process the images, its very slow to manually go page by page click links and export them. Is there a way or tool which would export links organized in folders by page number? for catalog of hundreds of pages, its very time-hungry to identify images for each page, page by page

    I desperately need an automation method to get it organized.

    Currently the best I can do is use the free ID Util as its faster as indesign for this, but still have to go image by image, and click show, and copy it somewhere

    is there a tool or script for mac?
    please save my life somebody

  • December 18, 2019 at 8:46 am #14323429
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    What do you mean by “export” the images? Are they embedded in the file?

  • December 18, 2019 at 8:57 am #14323426
    Jason Mull

    Member

    Hello Peter, is this what you are looking for? At least it may get you started so you can figure out another solution.

    https://kasyan.ho.com.ua/indesign/link/links_report_to_csv.html

  • December 18, 2019 at 9:37 am #14323425
    Robert Ploch

    Member

    Hi Peter,
    try this snippet of code … I hope I’ve understood your idea :) In my test environment it works ! I’ve put .AI .PDF and.JPG graphic files.
    This solution copy the link from original path and put it in folder named page’s numer and relink to the new copied file …

    If you will need some modifications just write :)

    Best regards Robert

    var doc = app.activeDocument, pages = doc.pages, i = pages.length;
    var docName = doc.name, docPath = doc.filePath;

    while ( i– ) {
    var g = pages[i].allGraphics, j = g.length;
    while ( j– ) {
    var pageName = g[j].parentPage.name;
    var link = g[j].itemLink;
    var newFolder = new Folder( docPath + ‘/’ + pageName + ‘/’ );
    if ( !newFolder.exists ) {
    newFolder.create();
    }
    newFolder.create();
    newLinkFile = new File( newFolder + ‘/’ + link.name );
    if ( !newLinkFile.exists ) {
    link.copyLink( newLinkFile );
    }
    }
    }

  • December 18, 2019 at 9:38 am #14323424
    Robert Ploch

    Member

    in case of problems with copy and paste the code into e.g. ExtendSrpipt Toolkit, write me please you e-mial, so I’ll send you the script file.

    regards
    Robert

  • December 18, 2019 at 9:52 am #14323423
    Robert Ploch

    Member

    the second occurrence of line :

    newFolder.create();

    is to delete, of course :)

  • December 18, 2019 at 3:49 pm #14323417
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    hi robert u saved my ass a lot of pain, great, i managed to fix what the forum changed to get it wotk
    (for anyone looking into it there needs to fix quotes, 2 minus signs in while brackets)

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