copy filepath to clipboard [SOLVED]

[Lukas_Zalesky]

Hi, i need copy path of selection (one or more links) to clipboard. I know i can use shortcut directly in InDesign, but it works only if links panel is open and i work without panels 🙂 So can JS help me? - windows 10

Thanky a lot.

[teachbit]

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by „path of selection“. Could you add a screenshot please? Do you copy the Element from one InDesign document to another or from a different software, and if so which one?

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi Lukas,

do you mean to copy the path of a placed and linked graphic to the clipboard?

And that with all paths you can find in a selection of objects?

You could work with the allGraphics array of every selected item, concatenate all found allGraphics arrays and loop the resulting array. In the loop you check two things:

1. Is there an item link? If not the graphic is pasted. Then loop on.

2. If there is an item link you could read out the file path.

Add every file path to the result array.

Add a new text frame to the document, assign the results as contents to the story of the text frame, select texts[0] of the story, do app.copy(). Remove the added text frame. Restore your selection.

Something like this in ExtendScript code:

var sel = app.selection;
var graphicsInSelection = [];
var resultArray = [];

for( var n=0;n<sel.length;n++ )
{
	if( sel[n].allGraphics.length == 0 ){ continue };
	graphicsInSelection = graphicsInSelection.concat( sel[n].allGraphics );
};

for( var n=0; n<graphicsInSelection.length; n++ )
{
	if( graphicsInSelection[n].itemLink == null ){ continue };
	resultArray[ resultArray.length++ ] = File( graphicsInSelection[n].itemLink.filePath ).fullName;
};

// Do something with the results:
var doc = app.documents[0];
var tempTextFrame = doc.textFrames.add();

tempTextFrame.parentStory.contents = resultArray.join("\r");
tempTextFrame.parentStory.texts[0].select();

app.copy();

tempTextFrame.remove();
app.select( sel );

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

[Lukas_Zalesky]

Almost perfect 🙂 your script give me this type of path:
~/Downloads/kitten.jpg
/c/Intel/Logs/kitten.jpg

so now i have to use another script program (AHK) to edit clipboard, because i need the same "pathstyle" like i get when i use links panel:
C:\Users\lzalesky\Downloads\kitten.jpg
C:\Intel\Logs\kitten.jpg
i`m very newbie with JS 😕

Thanks a million!

[daitranthanhoa]

You change File( graphicsInSelection[n].itemLink.filePath ).fullName to File( graphicsInSelection[n].itemLink.filePath ).fsName

[Lukas_Zalesky]

Spectacular! THANK YOU