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Okay, will have to investigate.
Works well on a simple local PC - although the .psd notification appears before the file - but on a network, yikes!
By @SmythWharf
If you map it to a drive - it will look, for your script, like it's on a local PC.
Another benefit - you can hardcode letter of this drive in your script - without copy&pasting long paths - and just remap folder on the server to the same letter.
This technique also helps when you link to assets on the server - you can migrate whole office to a new premises, new severs, new IP addresses, etc. - but as long as the drive letter is the same - nothing changes for InDesign - or any other software.
You'll be linking to Z:\logos\pepsi.pdf
It won't matter if it's:
\\server\data\users\name\Desktop\test\logos\pepsi.pdf
or
\\19.168.10.20\office\jobs\2024_05_20\poster\logos\pepsi.pdf
and on what machine you'll open your INDD file - as long as you've mapped corect folder as "Z:".
\\server\data\users\name\Desktop\test\
\\19.168.10.20\office\jobs\2024_05_20\poster\
I'm doing something similar on the pc. I have set a shortcut for "copy full path" in links panel. I have also created a droplet that creates the tiff files.
Then I just have an AHK script that runs this droplet with the path parameter to the file I have selected in the ID.
By @DTPtutorialyCZ-L.Zalesky
If you have a lot of those - it would be much easier with the paid version of my ID-Tasker tool.
Hi @SmythWharf , looks like your file path string is returning double back slashes in the file path—I get this when I set the destination to the desktop:
alert(psdFileName.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\"))
If that’s not it, I use a similar script—this saves the new PSD into a folder named PSDs in the parent folder of the original link, and then relinks to the PSD:
imageToPSD()
var np;
function imageToPSD(){
var bt = new BridgeTalk();
bt.target = "photoshop";
var img;
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
//check selection
if (app.activeDocument.selection.length == 1 && app.activeDocument.selection[0].graphics.length == 1) {
img = app.activeDocument.selection[0].images[0];
} else if (app.activeDocument.selection.length == 1 && app.activeDocument.selection[0].constructor.name == "Image") {
img = app.activeDocument.selection[0]
} else{
alert("Please Select an image.")
return
}
var lnk = img.itemLink
if (lnk.linkType != "Photoshop" && lnk.status == LinkStatus.NORMAL) {
convertToPSD(lnk.filePath, bt)
//relink to the new PSD
try {
lnk.relink(File(np))
}catch(e) {}
}
} else {
alert("No Documents Open")
return
}
}
/**
* Convert a images to PSD
* @ param image file path
* @ param Bridgetalk instance
* return new file path
*/
function convertToPSD(pa, bt){
//convert the psScript function into a string
bt.body = psScript.toString() + "\rpsScript('"+pa+"');";
bt.onError = function( inBT ) { alert(inBT.body); };
bt.onResult = function(resObj) {
np = resObj.body
}
bt.send(1000);
function psScript(pa) {
app.bringToFront();
//a folder for PSDs inside the links folder
var f = Folder(File(pa).parent + "/PSDs")
f.create();
var of = open (File(pa));
//file name and new path
var n = of.name.replace(RegExp('()?\.[^\.]+$'), '');
var nf = f +"/" + n + ".psd";
//PSD options
var so = new PhotoshopSaveOptions();
so.alphaChannels = true;
so.embedColorProfile = true;
so.layers = true
so.spotColors = true;
of.saveAs(new File(nf), so, true);
of.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
//returns the new file pat to InDesign
return nf
}
};
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