Change this line so that it effects ALL open docs in InDESIGN

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#1

Hello,

I have this script that deletes all unused colors from the swatches panel in InDesign.


tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
	tell active document
		delete unused swatches
	end tell
end tell

I am trying to find the line that would address ALL OPEN DOCUMENTS, not just the active one.

Does anyone know if it is possible to have a script talk to all open documents?

thank you!
Babs

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#2

Hi ya

this works fine for ID 2020, not sure about 2018.

 tell application "Adobe InDesign 2020"
	repeat with i in every document
		set active document to i
		tell front document
			set UnusedSwatches to unused swatches
			repeat with UnusedSwatch from 1 to count of UnusedSwatches
				try
					delete UnusedSwatches
				end try
			end repeat
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell
#3

Hi Budgie,

It worked perfectly in 2018 after changing to that app.

Thank you so much!

Trying to clean up files and this will help.

Greatly appreciated!

Babs :slight_smile:

#4

Offtopic but instead of referring to the application names of the Adobe CC Suite which change frequently I recommend to use the bundle identifiers which don’t change

Replace

tell application "Adobe InDesign 2020"

with

tell application id "com.adobe.InDesign"
#5

Hi Stefan,

Long time!

Thank you for this tip.

Just jumping back into this stuff and that is very helpful. :slight_smile:

Thank you!!
Babs