Or do a global scale edit when finishing! Either answer would help.
I'm designing decorative, large scale window film in InDesign, and the images used are all photographs of glass.
It's important the press files all have images of 100% scale. Because there's a lot of directional changes, I often copy & paste the contents of one shape into another and then adjust the direction slightly. However I always, somehow end up getting scale changes. I then have to go in manually and check / adjust the scaling of every object individually. Since I'm making 24x36" repeats, this is a real chore.
Why doesn't the Frame Fitting Options panel have a scale field????
Arrgh.
I've tried using the find / change which doesn't have any options for content scaling that I can find.
Any help would be truly appreciated!
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If you are using OSX this would set all graphics to 100% both ways, centered.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
set transform reference point of layout window 1 to center anchor
set properties of all graphics of active document to {horizontal scale:100, vertical scale:100}
end tell
To use open Apple Script Editor, paste in the code, and save with .scpt extention to Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2018/Scripts/Scripts Panel. It will then show in your Scripts panel, double click to run
This shows the problem with assuming 100% has anything to do with output quality
100% with an output res of 300ppi
100% with an output res of 80ppi
If the scale really does matter you'll have to check the images and their parent frames:
Here both images are showing as 100%
But here with the parent frame of the bottom image selected I can see it has been scaled, which means the image is also scaled even though a direct selection of it shows 100%
The thing is, I work in sort of frenzy. I want an option where I can just check everything globally at the end. I didn't do any more work on this Sunday but I'm going to try the object styles & see.
Perhaps this “report” will do what you want:
Or perhaps a tab delimited text file that you can open as a spreadsheet and sort or filter on the Scale X/Y % columns:
// LinkExport-Pro_1a.jsx
//DESCRIPTION: Exports some information about placed images in the active Document into a textfile in the same folder as the document.
// The values are tab-separated, so that the content of the file can be copied to Excel via Clipboard.
// The exported textfile has the ending ".txt".
// Script by Martin Fischer (www.hilfdirselbst.ch)
//
var myDoc = app.documents[0];
if (myDoc.saved == false)
{
alert("Error.\rYou must first save your document.");
exit();
}
var myDocName = myDoc.name.split(".indd")[0];
var myTXT_File = myDocName + '.txt';
var myPath = myDoc.filePath + "/";
var myCreator = "R*ch";
var myType = "TEXT";
var theFiles = myDoc.links;
var myData = "link\tpath\tpage\twidth\theight\t% vertical\t% horizontal\teff. PPI\r";
var f = new File( myPath + myTXT_File );
f.open( 'w', myType, myCreator );
f.writeln( myData );
for (myCounter = 0; myCounter<theFiles.length;myCounter ++ ) {
var myBounds = theFiles[myCounter].parent.geometricBounds;
var myWidth = Math.round(myBounds[3]-myBounds[1]);
var myHeight = Math.round(myBounds[2]-myBounds[0]);
var myScaleVert = Math.round(theFiles[myCounter].parent.absoluteVerticalScale);
var myScaleHori = Math.round(theFiles[myCounter].parent.absoluteHorizontalScale);
var myImagePath = theFiles[myCounter].filePath;
// WARNING if vertical scale is different to horizontal scale
if (myScaleVert != myScaleHori)
{
var myWarning = "% vertical is not equal % horizontal";
}
else
{
var myWarning = "";
}
try
{
myPPI = (theFiles[myCounter].parent.effectivePpi);
}
catch (e)
{
myPPI = 0;
}
var myClass = theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.constructor.name;
// image placed on page
if (myClass == "Page")
{
myPage = theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.name;
}
// image embedded
else if (myClass == "Character")
{
try
{
myPage = theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.parentTextFrames[0].parent.name;
}
catch(e)
{
myPage = "versteckt im Überlauf";
}
}
else {
try
{
// image placed outside the pages
myPage = "Spread of " + theFiles[myCounter].parent.parent.parent.pages[0].name;
}
catch(e)
{
// don't know the page where the image is placed
alert ("Class: " + myClass + "\r" + theFiles[myCounter].name);
}
}
myData = theFiles[myCounter].name + "\t" + myImagePath + "\t" + myPage + "\t" + myWidth + "\t" + myHeight + "\t" + myScaleVert + "\t" + myScaleHori + "\t" + myPPI + "\r";
f.writeln(myData);
}
f.close();
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