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Sean Reilly
MemberHi Bob,
Good eye! I should have been using JavaScript. It’s working perfectly now- not sure what was throwing me off.
Thanks for the advice about just copying scripts over to the new computer. I was able to move sizelabels.jsx and get that working without tweaking the code again.
MemberIt’s been a lovely three months and three weeks using this method but now my office is switching over to Creative Cloud and I’m back to square one. (0_0)
IndesignCC still has imagecatalog.jsx as a built-in script but it won’t work properly. In one instance it placed all my tiffs and none of the eps. Sometimes it will give me an error message (https://imgur.com/Y9swb9Q), and sometimes it just won’t respond at all. I’ve tried opening my files which were created using CS6 with creative cloud and re-saving them as the newest version but didn’t have any luck.
Any ideas?
MemberBob,
Don’t ask me to explain why but I’m actually getting better results using All than Optimized Subsampling. In fact, when I checked the inside the print dialog box Optimized Subsampling was already being used. Thought it couldn’t hurt to see if All would have an effect one way or the other and viola- a clear print out.
Thanks so much for helping me narrow done the issue.
Sean
MemberHi Bob,
Seems that things aren’t quite as good as they seemed. I realized this afternoon that files being “placed” via imagecatalog don’t look as crisp as images placed in the conventional way when printed. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can hand pages over to editorial that don’t accurately reflect the file. Still, I think I can just place files and then use sizelabels to avoid manually entering all that information.
Sean
MemberBob,
I’d found the place in the script to change the unit to picas but hadn’t realized the box dimensions needed to be changed too. Thanks for the tip.
I think I may not need to use captions since sizelabels.jsx can add the file name also. Still, I’m glad I have some familiarity with it now and if editorial needs any more information about the images it could come in helpful.
I’d love to to be able to switch to digital commenting for a number of reasons but I think that’s an issue I’ll have to keep pushing. For the time being though you’ve really helped me out.
Cheers,
SeanMemberBob,
Thanks again. Yes, they are eps files! I thought all was lost when I read that but I’m fairly certain sizelabels.jsx can manage to label the dimensions of eps files too so I hope to use that instead of captions.
I am having a small issue with sizelabels.jsx (the boxes that the script creates with the information are very small and each and every one must be resized in order to read the text they contain) but I’ve contacted Kris and rorohiko and hopefully I’ll be good to go soon.
Feels like progress…
Sean
MemberHi Bob,
Thanks for the help! Deselecting fitting: proportional worked perfectly.
I think my problem with the captions was that I was selecting all the files in the links panel but then trying to select “generate static caption” from the tool bar at the top of the screen not from the menu that pops up via control/right click.
One sort of strange thing is still happening- image dimensions are filling in for some images but not others. Maybe I just need to fiddle with it a little bit. I’m also wondering- do you think there is any way to have the captions fill in image dimensions in picas? I tried switching my default unit of measurement before adding captions via InDesign> Preferences> Units & Increments but no dice.
Even if I can’t get that part to work this method will still save me a good chunk on time.
Thanks,
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