Save As script for archiving

Hi Aaron,

I wrote such a script, you can download it from here here.

It opens all InDesign documents in selected folder and resaves them into 'Resaved Files' subfolder, which is created in the selected folder. It ignores any errors while opening files: missing fonts, missing/modified images, etc.

Regards,
Kasyan

At first I tried to make the script to overwrite original files but encountered a problem: the files remained open and invisible in InDesign. I had no time to solve this problem yesterday so, as a workaround I, decided to write them into another folder.

On the other hand, you have original files intact in case something goes wrong — e.g. if your computer crashes while the script is working. And it doesn't take much time to select all resaved files and move them to the folder with original files to overwrite them.

Anyway if you need the script to overwrite the original files, I can give it a try when time permits. Let me know.

Kasyan

… all I really need is a macro/action that simply sends the four commands Shift-Cmd-S, Enter, Cmd-R, Cmd-W that I can run over and over until all the windows are closed. I can probably figure out how to do that myself sometime.

InDesign doesn't support macros and/or actions. And boy! is that high on my wish-list! Exactly for doing stuff like this. Now it needs a script.

The scripting language does not 'record' actions — it works the other way around, you have to supply the commands that are performed inside ID when you press 'Shift+Cmd+S'. So you would send a 'save as', then a 'close' command to the active window, repeating until no windows are left.

What happens when you have an untitled document? In the javascript below, I check for that and don't do nuffin' with these.

list = app.documents.everyItem().getElements();

	while (list.length > 0)

	{

		doc = list.pop();

		if (doc.saved)

		{

			doc.save (doc.fullName,false,undefined,true);

			doc.close();

		}

	}

May be Quickeys come in handy to you then.

I remade the script to save over old files: https://kasyan.ho.com.ua/downlo…..Files2.zip

Thanks Jongware for the tip!

Kasyan

Can anyone provide these “save as” scripts (or point to similar scripts)? The links supplied in the answers no longer work.

Thanks