Object Export Options...

[Guest]

Would anyone know an easy way to access Object Export Options found in the Object menu of InDesign using a script?

More specifically, we currently have a script with a dialogue that adds alt text to images in a document and has other features that are almost identical to the InDesign Object Export Options feature, but with slight differences.  We are trying to synchronize so that when a user adds an alt text thru our dialogue using our script, that the alt text will be changed automaticly specifically under Custom heading in the Object Export Options.

I have found a similar example, at http://forums.adobe.com/message/5688491, but not quite what I'm looking for.

Any ideas?

[AnshulJain19 · Accepted solution]

Hi Andrew,

Do you need a script that will apply Alt Text as Custom type in Object Export Options for images in a document. Please find below script which does same thing:

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myGraphics = app.activeDocument.allGraphics;

myTotalGraphics = myGraphics.length;

for(var i=0; i<myTotalGraphics; i++)

    {     

      myGraphics.parent.objectExportOptions.altTextSourceType = SourceType.SOURCE_CUSTOM;

      myGraphics.parent.objectExportOptions.customAltText = "Graphic Number : " + i;

     }

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Thanks

-Anshul

[Guest]

Thanks for the help Anshul.  Yes this worked.  Slight modifications to this code, but I was able to achieved the desired behaviour.

Thanks,

Andrew

[Shanpub]

@AnshulJain19 In my case I want to give custom alt text from the caption which presents in the InDesign file.

every image has a different caption.

Can you help me with this?