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Javascript: Saving new file name as clipboard text

New Here ,
Aug 28, 2020 Aug 28, 2020

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Hello. I currently work with quite a few InDesign template files (simply indesign files), which require me to relink pdf files to objects. I currently have a script that will save out the InDesign file to the specific location that needs to be saved to.

 

My current script looks like this:

var pt = app.paste();

if(app.activeDocument.saved == false) {
    app.activeDocument.save(new File("PATH" + pt + ".indd"));
 }

 

Thinking it through, I don't think the pasted text (app.paste) would work for the name, but I'm not sure if there's a way to grab the clipboard text, as I didn't see anything on the InDesign javascript scripting manual regarding this. Is something like this even possible/would there be any work arounds to being able to grab the text from the clipboard?

 

Thank you!

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Community Expert , Aug 28, 2020 Aug 28, 2020

You need to paste it into something that you can then access. Calling paste on text makes a new textframe on your document and selects it. Thus, you can get it like this. I assume you have "PATH" defined somewhere else; in this case I saved to the Desktop. 

 

 

var doc = app.activeDocument;
app.selection = null;
app.paste();
var sel = app.selection[0];
var pt = sel.parentStory.contents;
var path = "~/Desktop/";
if(doc.saved == false) {
    doc.save(new File(path + pt + ".indd"));
 }

sel.remove(
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You need to paste it into something that you can then access. Calling paste on text makes a new textframe on your document and selects it. Thus, you can get it like this. I assume you have "PATH" defined somewhere else; in this case I saved to the Desktop. 

 

 

var doc = app.activeDocument;
app.selection = null;
app.paste();
var sel = app.selection[0];
var pt = sel.parentStory.contents;
var path = "~/Desktop/";
if(doc.saved == false) {
    doc.save(new File(path + pt + ".indd"));
 }

sel.remove();

 

 

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This is exactly what I was looking for. Yes, I had a path already established and just had PATH as a substitute.


Thank you so much!

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