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• • August 14, 2017 at 8:17 am #96739
    Bob Rubey

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    I located a script that might come in handy for some of my work: https://www.scriptopedia.org/en/js-indesign/189-find-change-links-in-indesign.html

    I didn’t have a problem with Find/Change Text Option when I tested, but the GREP combinations I try always result in No Matching File Found and it is the GREP option that I am more likely to need. For my purposes, filename.tif (and other file types) will always be replaced with filename_00A.tif (underscore, two digits, and a cap letter).

    This is where I am at…
    Find what:
    \.tif
    Replace with:
    \dd\u\ .tif

    I’ve tried changing \dd\ to \d{2}\ and bracketing with as well as removing the space before .tif but nothing has worked and GREP is not something I’ve used before.

    Bob

  • August 14, 2017 at 12:50 pm #96747
    Peter Kahrel

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    Maybe you should give some examples of what you want to do. Your find and replace string don’t make a lot of sense: you search for \.tif and replace that with \dd\u\.tif — which means that a string like screen.tif is replaced with screen\dd\u\.tif

  • August 14, 2017 at 1:15 pm #96748
    Bob Rubey

    Member

    Thanks for looking Peter.

    I’m just trying to adjust for my workflow following the examples on the scriptopedia.org website (see original post).

    Once the GREP parameters are entered, instead of using the Find/Change search options the script is started. I’ve never received an error from the script, but it never finds matching files either.

    I thought my original post was clear, but here’s what happens…
    Image files are received (filename.tif, filename.jpg, and so on).
    Image files are edited and finished files are (usually) saved as tif are given a suffix (filename_00A.tif). The suffix is always (underscore, two digits, and a cap letter).

    I would like the script to replace the original files (sans suffix) with the new files.

    Bob

  • August 16, 2017 at 8:17 am #96780
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Sorry, Bob, I should have looked better. I think the problem is that you use \u in JavaScript GREP — it doesn’t exist. Instead, use [A-Z] to test for capital letter, e.g.

    if (/_\d\d[A-Z](?=\.tif$)/.test (f[i].name))

    P.

  • August 16, 2017 at 8:46 am #96781
    Bob Rubey

    Member

    Peter,

    I wondered if something like that might be the problem when I realized there were no Wildcards under @ in the Change to:. The demo only shows Wildcards in the Find what: field.

    So, as an experiment I re-saved both sets of images as JPEGs (in case the script didn’t work with other formats) and followed the Demo example exactly. Unfortunately it never found matching files no matter what I did with GREP.

    I’ve pretty much given up on GREP when it comes to the script. I haven’t had any problems using the Text option, and perhaps it would be wise to replace images in smaller batches anyway ; ). And I won’t need the script often.

    It was still a good/interesting introduction to GREP and maybe I will find another need/use for it in the future.

    Thanks for your help!

    Bob

  • August 17, 2017 at 1:44 am #96818
    Graham Park

    Member

    Bob
    I would try a simple GREP script as below. This will find the filenames in the format you have listed, remove the suffix and change the extension to .tif from .jpg
    Will only work when the suffix is an underscore followed but two digits and an uppercase letter and the .jpg
    If you don’t want to change the extension

    Find
    (.+)_\d{2}[\u].jpg
    Replace
    $1.tif

    If you don’t want to change the extension then
    Find
    (.+)_\d{2}[\u](.jpg)
    Change
    $1$2

    Graham

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