InDesign identify and replace text

Viti · June 16, 2017, 5:17pm

Guys, I need you help with InDesign.

I am designing a catalogue with thousands of photos. Under every photo I should type the code of the product/photo. The photos have that exact syntax in their name “1010-1201 INKY BLUE304 1.jpg”. Another example is “1101-0977 ROSEWOOD407 2.jpg” I am interesting for the 8 digits with the hyphen only, which they are always in the beginning of the filename. Under the photo I input a text field in InDesign CC where I should type these 8 digits with the hyphen (1101-0977). I don’t know how to bind this text field with the photo and input the first 8 digits and the hyphen automatically.

So my thought is… How this text field can recognize the first part of the filename (1101-3456) which is unique on every photo and type it in this field?

Any idea?

Browser: Safari 537.36
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.10)

EricLipton · June 19, 2017, 8:19am

Hi,

try this; this script walks thru every group on each page, so make shure only your illustration and textframe which belong together are grouped and nothing else.

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS6”
activate
set pageCounter to 1
set groupCounter to 1

repeat (count pages of active document) times
	tell document 1
		
		repeat (count groups of page pageCounter) times
			
			set theFileName to name of item link of graphic 1 of first rectangle of group groupCounter
			set theFileName to (characters 1 thru 9 of theFileName) as string
			
			set contents of first text frame of group groupCounter to theFileName
			tell first text frame of group groupCounter to tell paragraph 1
				set applied font to "DIN	Medium"
				set point size to 12
				set fill color to color id 11
				set justification to left align
				set composer to "Adobe Composer alinea"
			end tell
			
			set groupCounter to (groupCounter + 1)
		end repeat
		
	end tell
	
	set pageCounter to (pageCounter + 1)
end repeat

end tell

Kind regards, Eric