I work prepress and when we get dozens of differently sized documents for ad-campaigns Id like to be able to apply the changes of Indesign-Coloswatches for the various printing-conditions as JavaScript (but Im frankly not experienced at Scripting).
To avoid having to enter the various names, values and clauses multiple times I thought I could write six Arrays (the first a list of the names of the swatches I want changed, the second a list of the names I want them changed to, the rest lists of the new colorValues as per separation), and then run a for-operation where selects the respective entries and uses them to select and change the Swatches.
(Id like to proceed similarly with relinking the layout-images with the hires ones that have been separated for the various printing-conditions later on.)
But either my concept is faulty from the start or Im violating a Scripting-convention because I cant get it to work.
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var theOldColors = ("C=100 M=70 Y=0 K=40", "C=0 M=15 Y=100 K=0");
var theNewColors = ("100/70/0/40->ztg100/58/0/25", "0/15/100/0->ztg0/10/100/0");
var cyanValues = (100, 0)
var magentaValues = (58, 10)
var yellowValues = (0, 100)
var blackValues = (25, 0)
for (var i = 0; i < theOldColors.length; i++){
myDocument.swatches.item(theOldColors ).space = ColorSpace.CMYK;
myDocument.swatches.item(theOldColors ).colorValue = new Array (Number (cyanValues), Number (magentaValues), Number (yellowValues), Number (blackValues) );
myDocument.swatches.item(theOldColors ).name = (theNewColors );
}
Can anyone of You point me to my mistake?
Any suggestions appreciated
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