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• • September 17, 2013 at 4:48 am #65338
    David Nightingale

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    Hi

    I need a script that will unlink content that has been placed into an indesign document using the ‘Place and Link’ feature.

    I know that I can manually go to the link panel, select the linked content there and click on ‘unlink’ in the panel menu. However I have around 200 indesign documents which are all full of content that has been ‘Placed and Linked’. One I get a script to unlink content I can add it to a batch routine to do the folder of 200.

    Can anybody help please.

    Cheers

  • September 17, 2013 at 6:33 am #65341
    David Nightingale

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    I’ve kind of solved this. 2 lines of code, that could perhaps be written a little better, i’m not the best at writting code.

    app.activeDocument.links.everyItem().unlink()
    app.activeDocument.links.everyItem().unembed()

    The first line of the above will unlink every item. This removes the ‘Place and Link’ content but it embedding other images. The second line will then unembed these images returning them to how they were.

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