Automating placing of multiple images into a document.

[Andy_McCulloch]

Hi

I hope someone might be able to point me in the right direction with this, I'm not a programmer of any sort so bare with me..

I have a folder of about 3 to 400 images all 'grouped' into a series of 4 by name like this: image1-1, image1-2, image1-3, image1-4, image2-1,image2-2, image2-3,image2-4 and so on.

I've setup a template in ID CS4 that has 4 image place holders for each group.

I'd like to be able to automate the placing of the groups of 4 images into my template before moving on to the next group of 4 (into a new version of the same template) until all images in that folder are done. I then need to be able to export those templates as flattened jpegs.

Is this something I'd be able to do via apple script? I'm not after a solution just some pointers or direction on how I might go about achieving this.

I hope I've explained this well enough, again please forgive my technical ignorance.

Andy

[phidy]

Hi Andy -

You explained it fine - and I am trying to do much the same thing.  Check out the "ImageCatalog.applescript"

Top Menu

    Window -> Automation -> Scripts

In SCRIPTS

     Application -> Samples -> AppleScript

     one of the scripts is:

          ImageCatalog.applescript

Regards, Paul

[Andy_McCulloch]

Hi Phidy

Thanks for that, that seems to do the trick as far as placing the images into a new blank document.

I need to work out how to get them into an existing template with predefined placeholders. Are these example scripts editable? I've found a guide to scripting and I might see if I can have a go at amending it myself.

[phidy]

It can be edited; I've also been trying to open an existing template

and I'll email you if I figure it out.

[Andy_McCulloch]

Thank you, I appreciate that. I think I've got some learning to do before I can achieve what I want to do

[2stanton]

I'm attempting something similar, I have an xml or database file with student names and picture number for a yearbook, I want to script so it palces the pictures into a document with the name under it, in the order of the names in the database file