Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your advice. As i have already tested with Bridge Talk() but i am unable to acheive it.

Below are my exact requirement.

Currently i am working with InDesign CS3. I need to check whether the Object layered images preseneted in my InDesign document, if it is found i need to open the particular image (.ai or .psd) in the (Illustrator or Photoshop) applications and do some layer manipulation in it and do saveAs with different name. Finally i need to relink the image in InDesign.

I have written the script for InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop seperately for the above stuff. The only thing i need to do is combine these scripts and make them intermediate. Finally i need to run this script from InDesign Scripts palette.

In a script, targetting the different applications is not work out i think so. Hence i tried with Bridge Talk() but facing difficulties on execution from ESTK.

My code:

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#target InDesign-5.0

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var docLinks = doc.links;

var OLImage = [];

var OLayer = [];

var myCheck = 0;

for (e=0; e<docLinks.length; e++){

    var myLink = docLinks[e];

    var myGLayer = myLink.parent.graphicLayerOptions.graphicLayers;

    if (myGLayer.length > 1){

        for (g=0; g<myGLayer.length; g++){

            if (myGLayer[g].currentVisibility != myGLayer[g].originalVisibility){

                OLayer.push(myGLayer[g].name);

                OLayer.push(myGLayer[g].currentVisibility);

                OLImage.push(OLayer);

                myCheck = 1;

            }

        }

    if (myCheck == 1){

        var myUpdatedImage = setLayerVisibility(myLink.filePath, OLImage);

        alert (myUpdatedImage);

        }

    }

}

function setLayerVisibility(myFile, ObjLayers){

    if (myFile.toString().match(/\.ai$/gi) != null){

//~         #target Illustrator-13.0

        var doc = app.open(File(myFile));

        var docPath = doc.path;

        for (o=0; o<ObjLayers.length; o++){

            if (ObjLayers[o][1])

                doc.layers.getByName(ObjLayers[o][0]).visible = true;

            else

                doc.layers.getByName(ObjLayers[o][0]).remove();

            }

        var saveOptions = new IllustratorSaveOptions();

        var aiCS4Doc = new File(docPath + "/" + doc.name.replace(".ai", "-b.ai"));

        saveOptions.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR14;

        saveOptions.flattenOutput = OutputFlattening.PRESERVEAPPEARANCE;

        doc.saveAs( aiCS4Doc, saveOptions );

        return aiCS4Doc;

    }   

    else if (myFile.toString().match(/\.psd$/gi) != null){

//~         #target Photoshop

        var doc = app.open(File(myFile));

        var docLayers = doc.layers;

        var docPath = doc.fullName.toString().replace(/\.psd$/gi, "-b.psd");

        for (p=0; p<ObjLayers.length; p++){

            if (ObjLayers[p][1])

                doc.layers.getByName(ObjLayers[p][0]).visible = true;

            else

                doc.layers.getByName(ObjLayers[p][0]).remove();

            }

        doc.saveAs (File(docPath));

        return docPath;

    }   

}

Can you please guide me in this regard.

Thanks in advance

Thiyagu

Hi John,

Thanks for your respond.

I tried to create new bridge talk and to merge my script within. When i run the script it doesn't show any error or warnings so.

Is there any specific application need to be selected in the ESTK dropdown during script execution?

Hence i am not clear with the bridge talk method i think so.

I hope this will make sense.

Thanks

Thiyagu

Hi Hawkinson,

Thanks for looking into this. Actually i forgetted to attch my updated code.

Using bridge talk i can able to call the other applications (Illustrator & Photoshop) and to give simple alerts. But i am unable to pass the arguments (array, string) to those applications via BT.

In the below code the variable 'myFile' contains the file path as string, i have tried to alert this file path in photoshop but it doesn't show anything.

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#target InDesign

var myFile = myLink.filePath;

var bt = new BridgeTalk;

bt.target = 'photoshop';

bt.body = "alert (myFile);"

bt.onResult = function(resObj) {

var myResult1 = resObj.body;

$.writeln("myResult1 = " + myResult1);

return myResult1;

}

bt.send();

Can you please check and help me in this regard.

Thanks & Regards

Thiyagu

Hi John,

Thanks for your help, it works great.