InDesign CS5 relink syntax error

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#1

Folks-

Going from CS3 to CS5 it appears that the relink syntax I’ve been using is no longer valid.

To focus on the syntax itself, I’m using an example StephanK posted, a document with only one link (broken), and the replacement path hard-coded, CS3 changed to CS5:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
	set usedGraphics to links of active document
	repeat with i from 1 to count items in usedGraphics
		set currentGraphic to item i of usedGraphics
		set newpath to "design:Links:Printer_ColorCorrect:2008_2011:42-15117694.tif" -- a string file name
		try
			relink currentGraphic to newpath
		end try
	end repeat
end tell

-- started
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
	get every link of active document
	-->		{link id 207 of image id 203 of rectangle id 208 of spread id 186 of document id 20
}
	relink link id 207 of image id 203 of rectangle id 208 of spread id 186 of document id 20 to "design:Links:Printer_ColorCorrect:2008_2011:42-15117694.tif"
	-->	error "Cannot create the link resource from the given URI."number 35869
end tell
-- stopped

Just to be clear, the replacement link does exist:

-- started
choose file
-->	alias "design:Links:Printer_ColorCorrect:2008_2011:42-15211694.tif"
-- stopped

I’d appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Ralph

#2

have you tried:
tell app “Finder” to set newpath to (newpath as alias)
relink currentGraphic to newpath
or
relink currentGraphic to file newpath

#3

The coercion to “file” did the trick.

		relink currentGraphic to file newpath

Thanks a bunch!

#4

Technically, “file” is a specifier. It describes the object type given in your string path. That’s not the same thing as coercion, which changes one type to another. This may seem like a nitpick, but it’s helpful to understanding why it was needed at all. A literal string can’t be converted to a file.