Re-link lots of images? Indesign CS3

Report · Apr 17, 2008

Hi - I posted this in the indesign forum and it was suggested to look here. I've had a quick look for a solution but thought I'd post aswell.

"Because I've resaved a load of jpegs to psds the links are now broken.

Is it possible to relink them all without doing each one manually?

The update link option is greyed out. All the psds are in the same folder. "

Thanks again

Report · Oct 30, 2008

Hi dugie

I have just seen your post

You could try changing:

function pagenum(myNumber){

to

function pad000(myNumber){

This should work

Regards
Duncan

Report · Oct 31, 2008

Hi jongware

Thanks for that link - i have downloaded & it is great!

Far quicker than cross-referencing through books (& more up-to-date)

Regards
Duncan

Report · Nov 03, 2008

Here is a new version of the previously posted script, which renames images on pages like so:
001_a.tif
002_b.tif

Now it uses letters from a-z for the images.

And it gives you a warning before renaming the links, which is quite prudent.
I am amazed at how different people in this forum make improvements to a script, making it better and better.




var myPages = app.activeDocument.pages;

var myProcessed = Object;

var myOrder = prompt("Example: thebook_08765", "Job description", "Please enter job description");

var response = confirm("Warning: You are about to rename all images linked to the foremost Indesign Document - proceed? Keep in mind - it is not reversible!");



if (response == true)

   {

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



   var myPageNumber = pad000(myPages.name);

   var myImages = myPages
.allGraphics;

   var myImageCounter = 0;

   var myLetterCounter = 0;



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



      myImageCounter++;



      var myLink = myImages.itemLink;

      var myOldLinkName = myLink.name;



      if (! myProcessed[myOldLinkName]) {

         var myImageNumber = pad000(myImageCounter);

         var myLetter = getLetter(myLetterCounter);

         myLetterCounter++;

         var myExtension = myOldLinkName.substr(myOldLinkName.lastIndexOf( "." ));

         var myNewLinkName =  myPageNumber  + "_" + myLetter + "_" + myOrder + myExtension; 

         var myOldImageHDfile = new File(myLink.filePath);

         myOldImageHDfile.rename(myNewLinkName);

         myProcessed[myOldLinkName] = myOldImageHDfile;

      }

      myLink.relink(myProcessed[myOldLinkName]);

      myLink.update();



   }

}



function pad000(myNumber) {

   if (myNumber >= 1 && myNumber <= 9) {

        x =  "0" + "0" + myNumber;

   }

   else if (myNumber >= 10 && myNumber <= 99) {

        x = "0" + myNumber;

   }

   else if (myNumber >= 100 && myNumber <= 999) {

        x = myNumber;

   }

    return x;

   }

}



function getLetter(myLetterCounter){

   var myArray = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','w','x','y','z'];

   if (myLetterCounter <= myArray.length-1) {

      return myArray[myLetterCounter];

   }

   else {

      return "" + myLetterCounter;

   }

}

Report · Nov 03, 2008

Hi Kasyan,

If you allow me to make two suggestions, you could shorten your two functions pad000 and getLetter:

function pad000(myNumber) {

   return ('000'+myNumber).match (/...$/)[0]

   }



function getLetter(myLetterCounter) {

   if (myLetterCounter <= 26)

      return String.fromCharCode (myLetterCounter+96);

   return String (myLetterCounter)

   }

These are just variants, they're not any better.

Peter

Report · Nov 03, 2008

Thank you, Peter!

It's high time me got down to studying regular expressions.

Kasyan

P.S. And string object methods too.

Report · Nov 03, 2008

No different to Kasyan's really - just without the function for the a,b,c ... bit

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myAllLinks = myDoc.allGraphics;
var mySeen = Object;

var myPrepend = prompt("Example: thebook_08765", "Job description", "Please enter job description");
var response = confirm("Warning: You are about to rename all images linked to the foremost Indesign Document - proceed? Keep in mind - it is not reversible!");

if ( response == true )
{

for ( i = 0; i < myAllLinks.length; i++ )
{
var myLinkName = myAllLinks.itemLink.name;

if ( mySeen[myLinkName] )
{
mySeen[myLinkName]++;
} else {
mySeen[myLinkName] = 1;
}
}

var myPages = myDoc.pages;

for ( p = 0; p < myPages.length; p++ )
{
var myPageNumber = pad000( myPages
.name );
var myLinks = myPages
.allGraphics;

var myASCII = 97;

for ( i = myLinks.length - 1; i >= 0; i-- )
{
var myLink = myLinks.itemLink;
var myOldLinkName = myLink.name;

if ( mySeen[myOldLinkName] == 1 )
{
var myExtension = myOldLinkName.substr(myOldLinkName.lastIndexOf( "." ));
var myNewLinkName = myPrepend + '_P' + myPageNumber + String.fromCharCode( myASCII ) + myExtension;

var myOldImageHDfile = new File( myLink.filePath );
myOldImageHDfile.rename( myNewLinkName );

myLink.relink( myOldImageHDfile );
myLink.update();

myASCII++;
}
}
}

}

function pad000(myNumber) {
if (myNumber >= 1 && myNumber <= 9) {
x = "0" + "0" + myNumber;
} else if (myNumber >= 10 && myNumber <= 99) {
x = "0" + myNumber;
} else if (myNumber >= 100 && myNumber <= 999) {
x = myNumber;
}
return x;
}

Regards
Duncan

Report · Nov 03, 2008