Enable clipping path

Can anyone get this to work in VB

this does not work
yourimage.clippingPath.clippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH

This works
yourimage.clippingPath.appliedPathName = ("Path 1")

but this does not either
yourimage.clippingPath.appliedPathName = yourimage.clippingPath.photoshopPathNames(1)

Can anyone help Iwant to use the path that is designated in photoshop or at least the first path in the array

Cheers Daniel

Hi Alistair

I think Kris at rorohiko.com does a plug-in that might help you.
Try Products > Freebies > InDesign Plug-in Collection > ClipAThing

Hello again. I missed this forum thread:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b543bd

The thread includes a ready-made JavaScript that does the job! Unfortunately, I was hoping to get a script that works on CS2 and CS3, and I now understand that InDesign CS2's scripting is broken with respect to clipping paths. Ho hum.

Thanks for reading.

Alistair

Thank you, Jongware. Your help is greatly appreciated. I suspect my JavaScripting problems are more fundamental, though, as I'm trying to adapt coding from other scripts but don't understand the detail of JS construction.

Alistair

A quick search show that the property clippingType of ClippingPathSettings can be set to ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH. As possible parents for the ClippingPathSettings, I get the list EPS, Image, ImportedPage, PDF, PICT, and WMF -- I guess Image is the one for you.
So that would come together as

yourimage.clippingPath.clippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH

Oh, wait -- you can have more than a single path in your PS image. Let's see. ClippingPathSettings also has a "appliedPathName" -- "The name of the Photoshop path or alpha channel to use as a clipping path." How do you know which paths it has? "photoshopPathNames"! ("Array of string; A list of the clipping paths stored in the graphic.")

All of this while I'm not behind a CS3 machine and never having used this method :-) I guess that you skipped one step in your description, where ID would ask you
i what
path you want to use. If you are confident there's always a single path, you could do something like

yourimage.clippingPath.appliedPathName = yourimage.clippingPath.photoshopPathNames[0];

to select the first (and only) one in this array.

Shameless plug alert. I could locate (and copy!) this information quickly without using the ESTK help, because I cheated and created an HTML version of the JS help, complete with hyperlinked cross-references and an index. You can download it from http://www.jongware.com/binaries/indesigncs3jshelp.zip if this sounds interesting.