How to co-brand 100 different Indesign document automatically

[rickr71689798]

We have partners that join our reseller program often. We like to co-brand all our documents with their logos but right now, we have about 50-100 different documents. We've been doing it manually up until this point, but is there a way to automate the addition of an image to a large set of documents?

[Eugene Tyson]

You could use "Snippets" - and these can be set to always be in the same place/size.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/reusing-graphics-text.html

https://creativepro.com/the-joy-of-snippets/

Might speed up your process.

[SJRiegel]

If the co-brand logo falls in the same place on all pages, you could add all documents to an InDesign Book panel, put the co-brand logo onto a Master Page, and then syncronize Master Pages across the Book.

[brianp311]

Here's a rough start to how I would approach it, putting the logo rectangles on their own layer called Logo within each document.  Assumes all docs are in one folder that you can select. 

var placeLogo = function(doc, logo) {
     var logoLayer = doc.layers.itemByName("Logo");
     var logoRects = logoLayer.rectangles.everyItem().getElements();
     for (var i = 0; i < logoRects.length; i++) {
          logoRects[i].place(logo);
          logoRects.fit(FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY);
     }
     logoLayer.visible = true;
};

var main = function() {

    var docFolder = Folder.selectDialog();
    if (!docFolder) { return; }
    var logo = File.openDialog();
    if (!logo) { return; }
    var allDocs = docFolder.getFiles("*.indd");
    var doc;
    for (var i = 0; i < allDocs.length; i++ ) { 
        doc = app.open(allDocs[i]);
        placeLogo(doc, logo);
        doc.close(SaveOptions.YES);
    }
}

main();