[AS] Place gun

[David André Erichsen]

Hi, Im doing a script that ends up with images loaded in the place gun. Is there a way to only enable the "grid-tool" with the script, so you dont need to press cmd+shift when placing the images on the page?

[jackbrannen_pl]

HI David, I’m sorry, this isn’t an answer to your question, but I am having trouble loading the place gun at all. Can you show me your script? Thanks.

[Kevin Parrott]

something like this should get you going

activate application "Adobe InDesign CC 2015"

delay 0.5

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Adobe InDesign CC 2015"

    key down {command}

    key down {shift}

end tell

[DBLjan]

Hey David,

hope youre still poked if this thread gets an answer:

Im struggeling even targeting the place gun. Ive found this code snippet but it doesnt work, do you have any clue why its not working?

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2017"
    set testfile1 to choose file "Choose graphic file." with multiple selections allowed
    tell active document
        tell page 1
            tell place gun 1
                load place gun testfile1 without showing options
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

[David André Erichsen]

Try this

set loadFiles to choose file "Choose graphic file." with multiple selections allowed

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"

  activate

  tell active document

   if loaded of place gun 1 is false then

     tell place gun 1

       repeat with loadFile in loadFiles

         load place gun loadFile without showing options

       end repeat

     end tell

   end if

  end tell

end tell

[DBLjan]

That worked out fine…but i cant point out the difference
In my code, i had only one file choosen, and it didnt work out.

[David André Erichsen]

testfile1 is a list with only one item. I think this change make it work for you:

1.     set testfile1 to item 1 of choose file "Choose graphic file." with multiple selections allowed 

[DBLjan]

Applescript wont do this:
set xyz to item 1 of choose from…

But I found out, that

1. tell page 1
2.             tell place gun 1
3. …
4.             end tell
5. end tell

The problem was to tell the page

[michaele30514822]

I know this is an old thread, but does anyone know how to make this work with a file path to a single file, instead of the choose file option? Maybe more of a syntax question.