find image and then delete...

Hi @Clive5E0C ,

when this thread was moved to the new Adobe InDesign forum at the end of 2019 the code from 2009 was damaged!

Below the repaired version that I did not test:

var del_list = ["foo.psd", "var.jpg", "hoge.tif"];

var my_doc = app.activeDocument;
var my_image = my_doc.allGraphics;

for (var i = (my_image.length - 1); i >= 0; i--)
{

	var tmp_name = my_image[i].itemLink.name;

	for (var ii = 0; ii < del_list.length; ii++)
	{

		if (del_list[ii] === tmp_name)
		{
			 my_image[i].parent.locked = false;
			 my_image[i].remove();
		}

	}
}

Let's discuss this a bit, code from 2009, written perhaps with InDesign CS4 or CS5 in mind:

There is a loop through the allGraphics array of the document.

With a current version of InDesign this means that also graphics could be stored in that array that have no itemLink at all and would error out the script. Pixels that are copy/pasted from e.g. PhotoShop inside an InDesign layout.

So best stay with Peter Kahrel's approach with a placed and linked image or graphic that can be addressed directly with the name property of the item's link:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign16/#Link.html

The parent of that link will return the graphic itself. See the allGraphics array of a document.

The parent of that parent is the frame that contains the graphic.

Removing that frame will remove the graphic from the document.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

var del_list = ["foo.psd", "var.jpg", "hoge.tif"];
var my_doc = app.activeDocument;
var my_image = my_doc.allGraphics;
for (var i = (my_image.length - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
     var tmp_name = my_image.itemLink.name;
     for (var ii = 0; ii < del_list.length; ii++) {
          if (del_list[ii] === tmp_name) {
              my_image.parent.locked = false;
              my_image.remove();
          }
     }
}