Change illustrator import settings after placed

Hi,
I have a file with a few hundred illustrator files which have been placed into an indesign file. I would like to change the crop settings to crop. Is there a way of doing it without re placing all of the files?
I have quite a few of these files, so I'll literally have to replace thousands of files - tedious to say the least.
Steven.

This probably requires a script. We have a few regualrs here that do scripting, but you might get faster service by asking over in http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_scripting

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Hi,
I have a file with a few hundred illustrator files which have been placed into an indesign file. I would like to change the crop settings to trim. Is there a way of doing it without re placing all of the files?
To explain it better, what you would normally do is click file > place and check the show import options. A dialog box would then appear asking where to crop the file. Is there a way of getting this dialog box / change the crop options after the file has been placed.
If someone could write a script for this, I would happily shoot over some beer money(£10), as it will save me hours.
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Awesome! There's a preference that controls whether manually re-placed images retain their scale. But looks lke you found the better way.
While we're here, I would tend to shy away from naming the variable, "image," because in the InDesign DOM Image is a subclass of Graphic, but your code operates on all Graphics (EPS | Image | ImportedPage | PDF | PICT | WMF).
Enjoy!

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Ooops........
My Bad, correct, posted in Itunes for windows by mistake. thanks.
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I would like to change these settings. Although, everytime I enter the Preferences foler and click on the Advanced tab and next on the Importing tab also make subtle changes they will Not adhere. Do I need to erase every program and start all over again or does anybody have a quick fix for me?
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+ i'll post links to images as well to fully show whats wrong.
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