Open All Files one by one

Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan

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    • February 22, 2020 at 1:38 pm #1229945
      Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan
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      Hi All,
      Greetings.

      I have written a script, which works in one .indd file. I have 100s of .indd files, in which I have to run this particular script once. I want to automate this too. The steps are as follows.

      1) Open first X.indd file in a particular folder or directory.
      2) Run the script.
      3) Save and close the .indd file with a X_Script_Applied.indd name.
      4) Repeat step 1 with the 2nd file in the directory.

      How to do this?
      Thanks in advance

    • February 23, 2020 at 10:09 pm #12300435
      Brian Pifer
      Participant

      Use the Folder object:

      var fol = Folder(“some/path”);
      var inddFiles = fol.getFiles(“*.indd”);
      for (var i = 0; i < inddFiles.length; i++) {
      var doc = app.open(inddFiles[i]);
      //do stuff
      }

    • February 24, 2020 at 10:06 am #12433010
      Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan
      Member

      Thank you Very much Brian.

    • February 24, 2020 at 6:48 pm #12433041
      Masood Ahmad
      Participant

      You can also use the BatchScript to run another script on all the InDesign files within a folder.

      Try that as well…

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