InDesign Move to Pasteboard Script Tweak

Report · Sep 20, 2022

Hi Adobe Community! I am trying to tweak a script in InDesign and am way out of my depth. I have a script that will move all items to the pasteboard, but will ignore any JPGs TIFs or PDFs. Though I would like to utilize a script that will ignore everything except for PDFs (leave the document alone, but will pull all PDFs out to the pasteboard. I've fiddled with this a lot, but the original script I'm working with looks like this:

function myFunction() {
var moveGroup = [];
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPages = myDoc.pages;
var myItems, myGroup;

for (var p=0; p<myPages.length; p++) {
var thePage = myPages[p];
for (var i=0; i<thePage.pageItems.length; i++) {
var myItem = thePage.pageItems[i];
if (!myItem.hasOwnProperty("contentType")) {
moveGroup.push(myItem);
}
else {
if (myItem.contentType == ContentType.GRAPHIC_TYPE && myItem.images.length != 0) {
if (!myItem.images[0].itemLink.name.match(/\.(tif|jpg)$/gi)) {
moveGroup.push(myItem);
}
}
else if (myItem.contentType == ContentType.GRAPHIC_TYPE && myItem.pdfs.length != 0) {
if (!myItem.pdfs[0].itemLink.name.match(/\.(pdf)$/gi)) {
moveGroup.push(myItem);
}
}
else {
moveGroup.push(myItem);
}
}
}

if (moveGroup.length > 1) {
myGroup = myDoc.groups.add(moveGroup);
movePageItems(myGroup , thePage);
else if (moveGroup.length == 1) {
myGroup = moveGroup[0];
movePageItems(myGroup , thePage);
}
moveGroup = [];
}

Anyone able to point me to how I should rewrite those else statements? Thanks in advance!

Report · Sep 20, 2022

Hi @Stephanie262131002dcs, this is how I would do it. You can put all the if predicates together. - Mark

function myFunction() {

    var moveGroup = [];
    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var myPages = myDoc.pages;
    var myGroup;

    for (var p = 0; p < myPages.length; p++) {

        var thePage = myPages[p];

        for (var i = 0; i < thePage.pageItems.length; i++) {

            var myItem = thePage.pageItems[i];

            if (
                myItem.hasOwnProperty("contentType")
                && myItem.contentType == ContentType.GRAPHIC_TYPE
                && myItem.pdfs.length > 0
            )
                moveGroup.push(myItem);

        }

        if (moveGroup.length > 1) {

            myGroup = myDoc.groups.add(moveGroup);

            movePageItems(myGroup, thePage);
        }

        else if (moveGroup.length == 1) {

            myGroup = moveGroup[0];
            movePageItems(myGroup, thePage);

        }

        moveGroup = [];

    }

};