[AS CS2] Create a list of all items whose clipping type = detect edges

Question

I am creating myself a light preflight script for Indesign CS2 documents where a part of it creates a list of all the images that have had the clipping path "detect edges" applied. But I am struggling to work out how to address the clipping path settings. This is basically what I have tried:
set BadClipping to the name of every link whose clipping type is detect edges
display dialog "The following images have detect edges on: " & (BadClipping as string)
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

On 8/7/08 10:43 AM, "Dylan" <[email protected]> wrote:<br /><br />> set BadClipping to the name of every link whose clipping type is detect edges<br /><br />'clipping type' isn't a property of links, so you're sunk there. You need to<br />go via graphics and the 'clipping path' property (the dictionary doesn't<br />list it for graphics for some odd reason, but all subclasses of graphic<br />support it so that's got to be a bug). 'clipping path' returns a reference<br />to the 'clipping path settings', one property of which is 'clipping type.<br /><br />So you need something like this:<br /><br />tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"<br />    tell document 1<br />        try<br />            set BadClipping to every item of all graphics whose clipping<br />type of clipping path is detect edges<br />        on error<br />            -- none found<br />        end try<br />    end tell<br />end tell<br /><br />-- <br />Shane Stanley <[email protected]>