InDesign CS3 (WIN): "Enable all profiles" scriptable ?

Hi,
We have to following problem: We have a large collection of IND files from different sources. When creating output, we want the image profiles to be enabled. The only way to do this, it seems, is manually when opening a document with a mismatched color profile, and there choose "Enable all profiles" for placed content. Trouble is, we can't seem to script this option. Question: Is it possible to disable the warnings and "enable all profiles" for placed content after the document is openend via a script? Or is there another option to script that all placed image profiles should be enabled, before exporting a PDF?
I hope you can help, where quite desperate...
Thanks,
Frank

Hello John,
I think you should start by modifying your *WidgetEH boss definition in your framework resources - replacing the IID_IBOOLEANCONTROLDATA it aggregates by an IID_IINTEGERCONTROLDATA - then you'll have to follow this boolean field down deep into your *WidgetEH implementation to replace it to any flavour of integer value you are used to.
Doing it that way you'll be able to store a state value from 0 to 7 - by example: that would be much closer from the behaviour you are looking for than a boolean toggle I'll guess.
Is this making sense to you?
Best regards
Patrick Perroud

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I believe that setting is an old Illustrator setting that has been saved to effectively turn the color management off. The monitor profile effects the image displayedit doesn't effect the color transform.
Anyway, the color management I want to use is the "North American General Purpose 2".
To reiterate:
The procedure:
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Different Colors when printing from Photoshop and InDesign CS3
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·Printer profile: ISO Coated
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RGB output devices (this includes essentially all inkjet printers from every manufacturer, when driven by the manufacturer print driver). Inkjet printers driven by a PostScript RIP are considered CMYK output devices, and thus this post does not apply to them.
When printing to RGB output devices from InDesign using the same ICC profiles and settings as in Photoshop, you still get crummy results, in terms of color, that differ from both IDCS2 and other Adobe applications including Photoshop CS3.
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First, I am surprised that there has been no response to your post since there were more than a few complaints about the problem in this forum when IDCS3 first came out. So thank you for the solution to this vexing problem.
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>InDesign CS2 previously did all rasterizing and color space conversion in InDesign prior to submitting the print job to the OS.
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I am not at all taking issue with the main point of your post, which I welcome wholeheartedly. I just find the second quoted phrase from you post confusing. Can you please clarify.
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