Automatically placing images into frames?

Hello all, I really hope im in the right part of this forum
anyway, I work at a print shop, we layout our gang runs in indesign, our files are automatically renamed to 88888-F.xxx and 88888-B.xxx (front/back, xxx being the extension jpg/pdf/tiff/etc)
the layouts are vertically symmetrical
is there anyway I can manually drag 88888-F into its frame and have 88888-B automatically be placed into the frame on the other side?
Thanks in advance!

I not aware of a process that allows you to use a manual drag and drop. Not sure if the event listener would work here. What you could do is using the ImageCatalog.jsx that comes in the sample JavaScript is create a script that selects a folder or files and places then in the order you require.

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Thank you all for such a brilliant forum. In the past two weeks I've gone from knowing nothing about scripting to compiling two scripts which do exactly as I need thanks mostly to contributors to this forum.
My question is about WHY my script works. I can understand most of the syntax I've been working with (sort of) but I can't get my head around this one....
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-- Thanks to all Adobe Forums contributors for generously publishing sections of code which new users can use to build their own
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How does the script know to place one instance of each image (rather than, say, repeating the first image in every frame)?
Thanks in advance,
Dwayne Smith

On 3/7/08 1:46 PM, "myDwayneSmith" <[email protected]> wrote: > How does the script understand the term dsPicItem when it hasn't been defined? > How does the script know to place one instance of each image (rather than, > say, repeating the first image in every frame)? When you say "repeat with dsPicItem in dsPics", you're saying to put a reference to the first item of dsPics into dsPicItem, then next time around put the second item, and so on. It's just a shorter way of saying: repeat with i from 1 to count of dsPics set dsPicItem to item i of dsPics Sometimes it can cause problems (because of the way references work), so the "longer" way is a better habit to get into. -- Shane Stanley <[email protected]>

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