Exporting graphics/images at full-resolution?

Yes, I have some other apps at my disposal, namely, ImageMagick. However, I don't want to use it. Notice the choice of words, "Want". I 'want' to do all my image processing on the indesign server.

Anyway, I found a solution, which works perfectly.

This is from a basic testcase, but obviously the code can be cleaned up.

d.allGraphics.each(function(graphic){

    var path = graphic.itemLink.filePath;

    var parent = graphic.parent;

    try {

        graphic.remove();

        parent.clearFrameFittingOptions();

        parent.place(File(path));

        parent.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);

        parent.graphics[0].exportFile(ExportFormat.PNG_FORMAT, File(gf+"/"+parent.graphics[0].itemLink.name+".png"));

     } catch (error){

        alert("drink a beer.");

     }

});

"An odd way to use ID…" -- That brought a smile to my face. Perhaps, odd, yes, but I've done worse, believe me.

There is a valid reason I have for not doing a collection, and pulling out the orginal assets/Links. I require them to be PNG.

InDesign server does a bang-up job at converting all EPS or AI or PSD files into PNG when I ask it to, but, it does so at a cost: It shrinks the exported/converted files to fit the size of their containing frames. Poo.

Here's a snipperoo of what I'm doing. Perhaps someone else has done the same, and figured out the full-size problem I'm facing.

This is part of a larger script, I've trimmed fat for brevity

(function(){

    var graphicExportDir = new Folder(source.path+"/graphics");

    graphicExportDir.exists||graphicExportDir.create();

    d.allGraphics.each(function(graphic){

        // Can I do something, here, to get my pal InDesign server to export at full-res?

        graphic.exportFile(ExportFormat.PNG_FORMAT, File(graphicExportDir+"/"+graphic.itemLink.name+".png"));

    })

})();

If you placed a 3000 x 2000 px jpeg into InDesign, why not just use that image? Why try to export something new out of InDesign? Even if you are successful, you will typically lose quaity whenever you change the format or resolution of graphics data.

If this is really a display quality issue that you're having, note that the graphics display quality is controlled by View > Display Performance > High Quality Display.  And make sure that you haven't lost the links to the original graphics ... see the Window > Links panel.