InDesign filename from placed image

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#1

Hello everyone, I’m new to this forum and sort of to Applescript as well. I’m working on an automation project that I think will be pretty easy, maybe you guys can help me on it. Here’s the breakdown: I’ll be receiving a bunch of images over the course of a day that will need to be rotated to portrait orientation, placed into an Indesign file, centered, and scale to fit proportionally. All that is pretty easy I think.

The hard part is the second half. I’ll have a second page in that file that I will need to paste the image filename that was placed on page one in a text box. I’ll also need to take that same filename and make it the InDesign filename and save the file.

Can someone shed a little light on the best way to do this?

Thanks,

John

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#2

I’m assuming that you know what the name of the image is that you are importing as it is part of the file path that you importing correct ?

I’m guessing that there is only one image per doc so so just have your script create a text frame and set the story 1 of that box to the name of the file and save the file with that name… I hope that makes sense.

If you need help building that code just let me know… but give it shot I’d bet you can do it

mm

#3

There will be two images, but one will be static. I’ll give her a shot, but may call upon you :slight_smile: