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April 6, 2014
Question

Open indesign links in photoshop

  • April 6, 2014
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Hi everyone,

Since im very new to scripting... i m requesting your help to fix this issue..

My need is to export the indesign page as jpg and then open the jpgs' in photoshop and save as psd.

I tried to the below script... indesign page exported as jpg, but the exported jpg is not opened in photoshop.

please help me on this....

Main();

function Main() {

var result=CreateBridgeTalkMessage();

var myOutFolderPathName = "C:\\Users\\Unique\\Desktop\\JPG\\";

doc_name = app.activeDocument.name.split(".indd")[0];

myPDFFilePath = myOutFolderPathName+"\\"+(doc_name) +'.jpg';

app.activeDocument.exportFile (ExportFormat.JPG, myPDFFilePath, false );


    function CreateBridgeTalkMessage() {
 
        var bt = new BridgeTalk();
        var re;
        bt.target = "photoshop";
        bt.body = openFile.toString();     
        bt.onResult = function(e) {
          re= e.body;
        }
        bt.send(900);
   return re;

 
    }
}
function openFile() {
    app.bringToFront();
    app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;
    app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.MM;
var myOutFolderPathName = Folder("C:\\Users\\Unique\\Desktop\\JPG\\");
   var fileList =myOutFolderPathName.getFiles("*.*");
for (var a in fileList){
   var thisDoc = open(File(fileList));
    }

   return true;
}

Many thanks for the support.

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