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• • November 26, 2018 at 1:57 pm #111828
    William Greenwood

    Member

    Hi all.

    Does anyone have a script that would move all images(in their frames) in a document, to a layer named Images?

    Or Help me with the obviously wrong script here.

    I’m trying to select all graphics. Or is it all graphic frames. I have no hair left!
    Ideas appreciated

    L = app.activeDocument.layers.item (‘Images’);
    app.activeDocument.allGraphics.everyItem().itemLayer = L;

    Thanks

    Bill

  • November 26, 2018 at 2:13 pm #111829
    Aaron Troia

    Participant

    Bill,

    I think I had this question a few years back and someone answered and gave me a script that I feel I should pass on.

    
    //Get a collection of graphics in the doc
    var imgs = app.activeDocument.allGraphics;
    
    //Loop through the graphics in the collection
    for(i=0; i<imgs.length;i++) {     
    	//use function move(to) to place graphics in layer named myLayer
    	imgs[i].parent.move(app.activeDocument.layers.item('Images'));
    }
    
    //Set myLayer layer options to be not visible and not printable
    app.activeDocument.layers.item('images').visible=true; 
    app.activeDocument.layers.item('images').printable=true;
    

    Aaron

    • November 26, 2018 at 3:56 pm #111831
      William Greenwood

      Member

      Aaron,

      Thanks you very much. Really thank you.
      This worked a treat!

      Time to regrow my hair!

      Thanks again

      Bill
      :)

  • November 26, 2018 at 5:41 pm #111833
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    There’s really something that bothers me more and more in all the forums:

    When a guy [especially a scripter] works really hard to learn something [as awesome and magic as Javascript] and finally decides to share it without directly asking something in return, it’s really painful for me to read someone can “obliterate” his[her] name and however use his[her] work.

    Lots here [and elsewhere] don’t appreciate my sincere outspokenness! … [and I don’t care!]
    Aaron, I appreciate you enough [especially on your “Grep” knowledge and contribution on this forum] to not truly having something personal against you! …

    This script, as simplistic for a scripter, was graciously posted by Loïc Aigon 10 years ago on Adobe’s InDesign Scripting Forum!

    I hope he will appreciate someone remembered his signing and his real and appreciable knowledge!

    Best,
    Michel

    • November 26, 2018 at 6:22 pm #111834
      Aaron Troia

      Participant

      Michel,

      I fully agree and thank you for calling me out on that. I didn’t mean to initially steal Loic’s code, I should have waited and done my due diligence to find the dev’s name before posting it. Had I remembered (or found the original post) I would have linked directly to it without hesitation.

      I will remember this anytime I post code from here on out, I have gotten so much help in this forum and don’t want to get a reputation for not giving recognition where it is due.

      Aaron

    • November 26, 2018 at 6:25 pm #111835
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

      Participant

      ;-)

  • December 4, 2018 at 4:16 pm #111968
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    …posted by Loïc Aigon 10 years ago on Adobe’s InDesign Scripting Forum!

    hence my shock looking at the code 10 years later. Definitively worth a rewrite.

  • January 16, 2019 at 7:22 am #113681
    Johan Andersson

    Member

    Hi
    Totally new to JS (native Applescript speaker ;) )
    I used this “simple” script to learn the syntax of ExtendScript, a great start, also found a small fault in it.
    in:
    imgs[i].parent.move(app.activeDocument.layers.item(‘Images’));
    Images is with capital “I”
    and
    app.activeDocument.layers.item(‘images’).visible=true;
    app.activeDocument.layers.item(‘images’).printable=true;
    ..images is with lower case “i”

    After change the script runs great!
    Thank you for teaching me! =)
    Cheers
    Johan

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