[CS3 AS] Replace color

Your code worked out swell!
I did change this line:
if item i of colorNames = "White" then
to:
if item i of colorNames contains "White" then
This allowed me to get rid of swatches like "White copy" or "White 2" as well.

Whoops! forgot the "tell document 1". Thanks!

On 4/2/09 8:07 AM, "Kermy" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote:<br /><br />> tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"<br />> delete swatch "White" replacing with swatch "Paper"<br />> end tell <br /><br />This is targetted at the application -- if you want to do it in a document,<br />you need to insert "tell document 1".<br />> <br />> Also, it might be "WHITE", "White" or "white" is there as way to do that in<br />> one step? <br /><br />You'll need to do something like get the name of every swatch, then loop<br />through doing a comparison inside an "ignoring case" construct. Something<br />like this:<br /><br />tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"<br /> tell document 1<br /> set colorNames to name of swatches whose name is not ""<br /> ignoring case<br /> repeat with i from 1 to count of colorNames<br /> if item i of colorNames = "White" then<br /> delete swatch (item i of colorNames) replacing with<br />swatch "Paper"<br /> end if<br /> end repeat<br /> end ignoring<br /> end tell<br />end tell<br /><br /><br />-- <br />Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au><br />AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <a href=http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>