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Participant
September 9, 2014
Question

smart collection of image files linked to InDesign documents?

  • September 9, 2014
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I would like to create a Smart Collection that finds all of the image files linked to InDesign documents in a specific folder.
I am the yearbook advisor at school and I need to easily find all of the images that have been placed so that we don't reuse images by mistake.

I have no scripting experience, so I can't create something myself, and I haven't been able to find anything that does such a thing.

Many yearbook design software programs do offer something like this - indicating that an image has been used previously.

I guess it would need to look at the metadata of the InDesign Files for the Linked Files and then pit all of the files found there into a Smart Collection.  Ideally, I would be able to further limit it by file type. ANd to not include Master pages if so desired (although that would just be a bonus!)

I greatly appreciate any assistance anyone can give.

Thanks!

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Inspiring
September 9, 2014

You will find an AI and ID links to collection scripts at psscripts... I did these some time ago..

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Participant
September 10, 2014

Thanks!

I found the script and got it to work.  Any suggestions as to how I could modify it so that I could apply it to multiple InDesign files at once?

Inspiring
September 10, 2014

I did these a while back. ID files do let you click the link icon top right and let you collect links per file.. Adding a loop to selection should be relatively easy...

AI does not get these icons because of a missing bag in the file XMP.

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