Renaming files

[Stephane27925305ylf8]

Hello everybody,

Regarding a jsx file

1. For an export from Indesign to JPEG, how to name JPEG files with a specific name wich is the 13 first characters (EAN) among the 14 first of every Indesign files name :

9782340-046337_COUV_2022_02_24.indd

becomes

9782340046337.jpg

2. And then save the export file on the desktop without changing the path on every machine

Thanks a lot for your help

[Peter Kahrel]

You meant the first 14 characters, correct? Not the first 13.

jpgName = app.activeDocument.name.replace (/(.{14}).+/, '$1.jpg');

or perhaps

 jpgName = app.activeDocument.name.replace (/^([-\d]+).+/, '$1.jpg')

which amounts to 'all digits and dashes from the start of the string', so you needn't worry about how many characters you want to catch.

> And then save the export file on the desktop without changing the path on every machine

What exactly do you mean by 'witout changing the path'? The desktop is its own path.

[Stephane27925305ylf8]

Hello Peter,

thanks for your quick answer.

For the moment I have that :

//export the JPEG

doc.exportFile(

ExportFormat.jpg,

File("/Users/Smith/Desktop/" + doc.name.substring(0,13) + ".jpg"),

Wich gives :

9782340-04633.jpg

from

9782340-046337_COUV_2022_02_24.indd

My goal is to have 9782340046337.jpg

And if possible, instead of /Users/Smith/Desktop/, a generic way to save the file in the desktop wathever the computer is to.

[Peter Kahrel]

You need .substring(0,14) to get the file name correct.

The path on any computer's desktop is ~/Desktop/, so you would use

File("~/Desktop/" + doc.name.substring(0,14) + ".jpg"),

[Stephane27925305ylf8]

OK thanks.

So I have 9782340-046337.jpg on the desktop, but what I want is 9782340046337.jpg, 13 digits without the dash…

🙂

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

doc.name.substring(0,14).replace("-","") + ".jpg"

(^/)  The Jedi