InDesign Scripts

Resample Project Images to 100%

By Dmitriy Lapayev July 18, 2008
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The script is intended to batch process the resize of raster images of InDesign-Documents in a selected folder to 100% scaling while maintaining necessary and importance of effective resolution. It also transforms the image according to the Rotation and Skew Angles. When you run the script must select a project folder, which contains document subfolders (documents and folders with linked graphics files). The number and names found documents showing in the script options dialog. The script will skip over and not process: 1) Missing, Modified, Embedded Links, embedded images saved in folder "Embedded Images"; 2) Files with vector data (AI, PDF, EPS(Ai)...); 3) CompuServe GIF-files - mode "Save As Is" (native resolution only 72 Ppi); 4) Files in Folder with name "Excludes" (const exclFolderName = "Excludes"). Transformed images stored in a folder named "Links", which was created in the directory of the .indd document. The files with similar names (without extension)are assigned indexes: "100pc" and duplicates are incremented from 1. Folder name and the index "100pc" can be edited to change the initialization file: const outFolderName = "Links"; const outFileIndex = "100pc"(default values); Transforming all Channels, Layers and Paths of Images. For all Layers of the Images (including groups - Layer Sets) execute commands Unlink and Unlocked. For the transformation Effects, applied to the Layers, realized Convert Layers to Smart Objects. The transfer and run script in Photoshop and back to InDesign (Relink) functions performed by BridgeTalk. Installed Programs Photoshop and InDesign should be one version of Creative Suite (CS).

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