JS that applies all clipping paths at once?

Hello,
I found the thread that contains the Applescript for this, but would love to have a Javascript that works the same. Anyone have or know of one for ID CS5 that will apply all clipping paths for a group of objects at once?
Thanks in advance, as always
Andy

So it's all Photoshop paths? Yes, it ought to work. Perhaps you also need to specify which path ... Try with this line added:
app.selection[i].images[0].clippingPath.appliedPathName = app.selection[i].images[0].clippingPath.photoshopPathNames[0];
inside the try { .. } catch block. This ought to set the clipping path to the very first one in the file.
It's important to do operations such as these inside a try .. catch block, because this construction shields you from errors. Without the try .. catch, the script would issue an error for the very first image it encounters that has zero paths (and thus "the first", which is numbered #0, is not valid) and then stop with the error alert. Now it will still signal the error but the 'error handler' (the second curly-bracketed part) ensures it does nothing with that information, and so it will ignore the error and continue with the next image.
And yes, a Javascript needs to be saved as ".jsx" to work. Otherwise InDesign doesn't recognize it as a valid script.

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        if(allGraphicsInDoc[n].hasOwnProperty("clippingPath")){allGraphicsInDoc[n].clippingPath.c lippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH};
            allGraphicsInDoc[n].clippingPath.appliedPathName = "Path 1";

this is what we have, but it's not working:
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function resetAllClippingPathsToActiveDoc(){
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    var allGraphicsInDoc = d.allGraphics;
    for(var n=0;n<allGraphicsInDoc.length;n++){
        if(allGraphicsInDoc[n].hasOwnProperty("clippingPath")){allGraphicsInDoc[n].clippingPath.c lippingType = ClippingPathType.PHOTOSHOP_PATH};
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Does anyone know how to apply the photoshop clipping path to all images in a document, If the image contains one ?
I can't find a clipping path property of the graphic object in the reference manual...
The loop structure itself is not a problem...
for (var j = app.activeDocument.allGraphics.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
Thanx
Tim

Hi Peter,
I've just tried using...
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try
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( theClippingPath.photoshopPathNames.length > 0 ) )
theClippingPath.clippingType = ClippingPathType.photoshopPath;
catch ( e )
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Hello,
For some time I have been trying to figure out a problem I am having with a script.
I have succeeded to write a script that does exactly what I want, wich is having Photoshop opening selected files, then apply the clipping path and finaly save as .png
The only problem I am experiencing is when Photoshop (CS 5.5) opens the selected number of files, it only applies the script to the first opened file, while the others remain unedited...
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if(myInputFolder!=null){
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l=app.activeDocument.layers.length;
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    if (app.activeDocument.pathItems.length > 0) {
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try {
app.activeDocument.selection.clear();
} catch(e) {
alert("Sorry, dit document bevat geen pad!");
}//end catch
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   doc = activeDocument;
   res = doc.resolution;
   doc.resizeImage(undefined, undefined, 150, ResampleMethod.BICUBIC);
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doc = app.activeDocument;
Path = doc.path;
Name = doc.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
Suffix = "_DSok";
saveFile = File(Path + "/" + Name + Suffix + ".png");
SavePNG();//removed saveFile since it's global, you don't need it here.
};//end for loop that sets each document as active.
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    pngSaveOptions = new PNGSaveOptions();
activeDocument.saveAs(saveFile, pngSaveOptions, true, Extension.LOWERCASE);
activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
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I have 22,000 images, half of which were colour corrected in lightroom, but all 22,000 were exported from lightroom.
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