SubscribeUpdate path names in links
By Loic on Thursday, 04 Mar 2010, 09:08 - JavaScript-InDesign - Permalink
You moved your pictures to another location, or just rename a harddrive but now Indesign can't find your links anymore ?
Panic on board, you have 12.684 links to update in your document et can't afford to spend your night on it. Thank Kasyan Servetsky who kindly allows us to share his scripts in this right place.
So here is one of his scripts that will make your day updating all your links and save you from a fatal nervous breakdown.
- Script : UpdatePathNamesInLlinks14-1
- Author : Kasyan Servetsky
- Type : javascript
- Compatibility :
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- Price : Gratuit
Use
Open an Indesign document with broken links and run the script. Give the new folder including the pictures or the pictures 's subfolders and click ok.
This script relinks old links with new ones in a folder you choose, including subfolders.
At first, it looks for the new link that has the same name as the old one, in the selected folder, and if it's found, relinks it.
If the link with the exact name is not found and the link is not a text file (e.g. InCopy, Word, RTF, Exel file), the script tries to find a file with the same base name but a different extension (".psd", ".tif", ".jpg", ".ai", ".eps", ".pdf", ".indd").
If the script doesn't find the new link in the chosen folder, it repeats the above-mentioned process for every subfolder.
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Comments
Hmmm, ça me parait super intéressant ça… Merci Loic.
Congratulations. Thanks a lot. This optimizes our work, wich is already very hard.