CreativePro Forum

Return to Member Forum

• Author
  Posts
• • January 26, 2016 at 5:42 am #81119
    Paul White

    Member

    anyone know of a script to remove background colour from image picture boxes without deleting the image.

    I use coloured boxes as image placeholders but could do with removing the colour automatically

  • January 26, 2016 at 9:30 am #81121
    Keith Gilbert

    Participant

    This script will remove the background color from any rectangular picture box that contains an image:

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var myRectangleArray = myDoc.rectangles.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var j = myRectangleArray.length – 1; j >= 0; j–) {
    var myItem = myRectangleArray[j];
    if ((myItem.graphics.length >0 ) || (myItem.images.length > 0)) {
    myItem.fillColor = myDoc.swatches.item(“None”);
    }
    }

  • January 27, 2016 at 2:26 am #81149
    Paul White

    Member

    I thanks for your reply Keith.

    I keep getting a Syntax error. Error number 8 on line 3
    offending text: –

    I know nothing about scripts so totally in your hands

  • January 27, 2016 at 12:12 pm #81156
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Paul,

    The forum software played a trick on Keith’s script. In this line:

    for (var j = myRectangleArray.length – 1; j >= 0; j–) {

    the two minuses in j-- were replaced by an en-rule. Line 3 should be

    for (var j = myRectangleArray.length – 1; j >= 0; j--) {

    Peter

  • January 27, 2016 at 1:47 pm #81157
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yes, as Peter learned, code on our forum needs to be inside pre or code html tags. :-)
    Thanks to Keith and Peter for jumping in and helping!

  • January 28, 2016 at 2:11 am #81179
    Paul White

    Member

    still getting the same error :(

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var myRectangleArray = myDoc.rectangles.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var j = myRectangleArray.length – 1; j >= 0; j--) {
    var myItem = myRectangleArray[j];
    if ((myItem.graphics.length >0 ) || (myItem.images.length > 0)) {
    myItem.fillColor = myDoc.swatches.item(“None”);
    }
    }
    

    can anyone have a quick look please?

  • January 28, 2016 at 2:27 am #81180
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    There was another instance where the forum software tried to be ‘clever’. Change the curly quotes at None to straight quotes.

  • January 28, 2016 at 4:19 am #81182
    Paul White

    Member

    fixed the curly quotes but still getting syntax error on line 3.
    it was the space between -1;

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var myRectangleArray = myDoc.rectangles.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var j = myRectangleArray.length -1; j >= 0; j--) {
    var myItem = myRectangleArray[j];
    if ((myItem.graphics.length >0 ) || (myItem.images.length > 0)) {
    myItem.fillColor = myDoc.swatches.item("None");
    }
    }
    

    This works great! The above code works if anyone else needs it and thank you for everyone input.
    Now do I tell it to look for all these in a book not just a single document?

  • January 28, 2016 at 4:38 am #81185
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    It was and it wasn’t the space between the – and the 1: the forum software replaced [space]-[space] to [space]en-rule[space].

    To run a script against all book documents, you could use the method described here:
    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2069523
    See the first post by Vamitul.

  • January 28, 2016 at 1:50 pm #81200
    Keith Gilbert

    Participant

    Gah! I was afraid that pasting the code in might chew it up! David, where do I insert the tags? I don’t see anything in the interface. Or do I just put the tags in like this?

  • January 28, 2016 at 1:52 pm #81202
    Keith Gilbert

    Participant

    Ah, I see now! I just answered my own question with the test above. I’ll use the tags next time!

    Peter, thanks for intercepting this and helping Paul.

  • January 29, 2016 at 1:30 am #81204
    Paul White

    Member

    Thanks Peter and Keith

    I have used the new script on this project and works great. I put in filled image placeholders to represent size and shape of a product until the images are ready to import and usually forget to remove the background, so this script is a great timing saving check before going to print.

    Is there away to modified this to script a book not just a document?

  • January 29, 2016 at 2:56 am #81206
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Here’s a wrapper to deal with books. Make sure there’s an open book, then run the script. The script opens, processes, and closes the book documents one by one.

    (Hope you don’t feel I’ve hijacked your script, Keith.)

    (function () {
    
      function removeBackgrounds (myDoc) {
        var myRectangleArray = myDoc.rectangles.everyItem().getElements();
        for (var j = myRectangleArray.length-1; j >= 0; j--) {
          var myItem = myRectangleArray[j];
          if ((myItem.graphics.length > 0 ) || (myItem.images.length > 0)) {
            myItem.fillColor = myDoc.swatches.item("None");
          }
        }
      }
      
      var chapters = app.activeBook.bookContents.everyItem().getElements();
      for (var i = 0; i < chapters.length; i++){
        app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
        app.open (chapters[i].fullName);
        app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
        removeBackgrounds (app.activeDocument);
        app.activeDocument.close (SaveOptions.YES);
      }
    
    }());

  • January 29, 2016 at 4:24 am #81208
    Paul White

    Member

    tested it and runs a treat.

    nice one.

  • October 18, 2016 at 9:02 am #89106
    Philip Sawkins

    Member

    Hi,

    Can not get this script to work, can someone please upload the script file here rather than just the text.
    Script for the single document not the book version.

    Sorry this is the first time looking at scripts, and I wonder if I am doing something wrong.

    Cheers
    Phil

  • October 27, 2016 at 4:40 pm #89371
    Brian Pifer

    Participant

    Hi Philip, Paul’s code from Jan. 28 should work. If you need help with how to set up a script with a snippet you found here, check out this post: https://creativepro.com/how-to-install-a-script-in-indesign-that-you-found-in-a-forum-or-blog-post.php

• Author
  Posts