Find text place image

Hello
I have a script that find text and replaced it with a image, but it makes a new document and i want it in the same document that i have open.
Can somebody help me with this problem. See script below. I work with Indesign CS 5 mac.
Kinde regards,
Patrick
#target indesign
var myDialogResult = CreateDialog();
if (myDialogResult == undefined) exit();
CheckIfChosenFoldersExist();
var myIndFiles = [];
var mySubFolders = [];
CheckFolder(myDialogResult.indFolder);
if (myIndFiles.length == 0) err("No InDesign files have been found in the selected folder and its subfolders.");
var myStartFolder = myDialogResult.imagesFolder.parent;
mySubFolders = getSubFolders(myStartFolder);
WriteToFile("\r--------------------- Script started -- " + GetDate() + "---------------------\n");
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
for (f = 0; f < myIndFiles.length; f++) {
 ProcessIndFile(myIndFiles[f]);
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
WriteToFile("--------------------- Script finished -- " + GetDate() + "---------------------\r\r");
alert("All done!");
// ------------------------------------------------- FUNCTIONS -------------------------------------------------
function PlaceImages() {
 app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
 app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '@.+?@';
 var myFoundItems = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
 for (i = 0; i < myFoundItems.length; i++) {
 var myName = myFoundItems[i].contents.replace (/@/g, "");
 var myFile = new File(myDialogResult.imagesFolder + "/" + myName);
 var myFrame = myFoundItems[i].parentTextFrames[0];
 if (myFile.exists) {
 PlaceIntoFrame(myFrame, myFile);
 continue;
 if (!SearchInSubfolders(myName, myFrame)) {
 WriteToFile("\tNOT FOUND -- " + myFile.fsName + "\n");
function SearchInSubfolders(myName, myFrame) {
 for (j = 0; j < mySubFolders.length; j++) {
 var myFolder = mySubFolders[j];
 var myFile = new File(myFolder + "/" + myName);
 if (myFile.exists) {
 PlaceIntoFrame(myFrame, myFile);
 return true;
 return false;
function PlaceIntoFrame(myFrame, myFile) {
 try {
 if (myFrame.characters.length < 100) {
 myFrame.getElements()[0].place(myFile);
 switch(myDialogResult.myRadSelected) {
 case 2:
 myFrame.fit(FitOptions.CENTER_CONTENT);
 break;
 case 3:
 myFrame.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);
 break;
 case 4:
 myFrame.fit(FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY);
 break;
 default:
 // do nothing
 WriteToFile("\tPlaced -- " + myFile.fsName+ "\n");
 catch(e) {
 WriteToFile("\tSome error occured while placing -- " + myFile.fsName + "\n");
function CheckFolder(folder) {
 var fileList = folder.getFiles()
 for (var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++) {
 var file = fileList[i];
 if (file instanceof File && file.name.match(/\.indd$/i)) {
 myIndFiles.push(file);
 else if (file instanceof Folder) {
 CheckFolder(file);
function getSubFolders(theFolder) {
 var myFileList = theFolder.getFiles();
 for (var i = 0; i < myFileList.length; i++) {
 var myFile = myFileList[i];
 if (myFile instanceof Folder){
 mySubFolders.push(myFile.absoluteURI);
 getSubFolders(myFile);
 return mySubFolders;
function err(e, icon){
 alert(e, "Place Images Script", icon);
 exit();
function ProcessIndFile(myFile) {
 try {
 var myDoc = app.open(myFile);
 WriteToFile(myDoc.name + "\n");
 var myNewFile = new File(myFile.fsName.replace(/\.indd$/i, "_Backup.indd"));
 myFile.copy(myNewFile);
 catch(e) {
 WriteToFile("Cannot open file -- " + myFile.fsName + "\nError: " + e.message + " (Error# " + e.number + ")\n");
 PlaceImages();
 myDoc = myDoc.save();
 myDoc.close();
function CreateDialog() {
 var myIndFolder, myImagesFolder;
 if (app.extractLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_IndFolderPath") != "") {
 var myIndFolderPath = app.extractLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_IndFolderPath");
 else {
 var myIndFolderPath = "No folder has been selected";
 if (app.extractLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_ImageFolderPath") != "") {
 var myImageFolderPath = app.extractLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_ImageFolderPath");
 else {
 var myImageFolderPath = "No folder has been selected";
 var myDialog = new Window('dialog', 'Place Images');
 myDialog.orientation = 'row';
 myDialog.alignChildren = 'top';
 var myPanel = myDialog.add('panel', undefined, 'Choose folders for:');
 var myIndFolderStTxt = myPanel.add('statictext', undefined, myIndFolderPath);
 var myButtonInd = myPanel.add('button', undefined, 'InDesign files', {name:'indd'});
 var myImagesFolderStTxt = myPanel.add('statictext', undefined, myImageFolderPath);
 var myButtonImages = myPanel.add('button', undefined, 'Image files', {name:'images'});
 var myGroup = myDialog.add('group');
 myGroup.orientation = 'column';
 var myRadioPanel = myGroup.add('panel', undefined, 'After placing:');
 myRadioPanel.alignChildren = 'left';
 var myRadioBtn1 = myRadioPanel.add('radiobutton', undefined, 'do nothing');
 var myRadioBtn2 = myRadioPanel.add('radiobutton', undefined, 'center content');
 var myRadioBtn3 = myRadioPanel.add('radiobutton', undefined, 'fit frame to content');
 var myRadioBtn4 = myRadioPanel.add('radiobutton', undefined, 'fit content proportionally');
 if (app.extractLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_RadioSelected") != "") {
 eval("myRadioBtn" + app.extractLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_RadioSelected") + ".value= true");
 else {
 myRadioBtn1.value = true;
 var myOkCancelGroup = myGroup.add('group');
 myOkCancelGroup.orientation = 'row';
 var myOkBtn = myOkCancelGroup.add('button', undefined, 'Place', {name:'ok'});
 var myCancelBtn = myOkCancelGroup.add('button', undefined, 'Quit', {name:'cancel'});
 myButtonInd.onClick = function() {
 myIndFolder = Folder.selectDialog ('Chose a folder for InDesign documents');
 if (myIndFolder != null) {
 myIndFolderStTxt.text = myIndFolder.fsName;
 myButtonImages.onClick = function() {
 myImagesFolder = Folder.selectDialog ('Chose a folder for Images');
 if (myImagesFolder != null) {
 myImagesFolderStTxt.text = myImagesFolder.fsName;
 var myShowDialog = myDialog.show();
 if (myIndFolder == undefined) {
 if (myIndFolderStTxt.text == "No folder has been selected") {
 myIndFolder = null;
 else {
 myIndFolder = new Folder(myIndFolderStTxt.text);
 if (myImagesFolder == undefined) {
 if (myImagesFolderStTxt.text == "No folder has been selected") {
 myImagesFolder = null;
 else {
 myImagesFolder = new Folder(myImagesFolderStTxt.text);
 var myRadSelected;
 if (myRadioBtn1.value) {
 myRadSelected = 1;
 else if(myRadioBtn2.value) {
 myRadSelected = 2;
 else if(myRadioBtn3.value) {
 myRadSelected = 3;
 else if(myRadioBtn4.value) {
 myRadSelected = 4;
 app.insertLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_RadioSelected", myRadSelected + "");
 app.insertLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_IndFolderPath", myIndFolderStTxt.text);
 app.insertLabel("Kas_PlaceImages_ImageFolderPath", myImagesFolderStTxt.text);
 if (myShowDialog== 1) {
 var myResult = {};
 myResult.indFolder = myIndFolder;
 myResult.imagesFolder = myImagesFolder;
 myResult.myRadSelected = myRadSelected;
 return myResult;
function WriteToFile(myText) {
 myFile = new File("~/Desktop/Place Images Report.txt");
 if ( myFile.exists ) {
 myFile.open("e");
 myFile.seek(0, 2);
 else {
 myFile.open("w");
 myFile.write(myText);
 myFile.close();
function GetDate() {
 var myDate = new Date();
 if ((myDate.getYear() - 100) < 10) {
 var myYear = "0" + new String((myDate.getYear() - 100));
 } else {
 var myYear = new String ((myDate.getYear() - 100));
 var myDateString = (myDate.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + myDate.getDate() + "/" + myYear + " " + myDate.getHours() + ":" + myDate.getMinutes() + ":" + myDate.getSeconds();
 return myDateString;
function CheckIfChosenFoldersExist() {
 if (myDialogResult.indFolder == null) {
 err("No folder has been chosen for InDesign files.", true);
 else if (myDialogResult.indFolder.constructor.name == "Folder") {
 if (!myDialogResult.indFolder.exists) {
 err("Folder \"" + myDialogResult.indFolder.fsName + "\" chosen for InDesign files does not exist.", true);
 if (myDialogResult.imagesFolder == null) {
 err("No folder has been chosen for pictures.", true);
 else if (myDialogResult.imagesFolder.constructor.name == "Folder") {
 if (!myDialogResult.imagesFolder.exists) {
 err("Folder \"" + myDialogResult.imagesFolder.fsName + "\" chosen for images does not exist.", true);

Try this, I use it every day
/*******************ImagePlacer***************************
    this script will addimages to the document by
    substituting them with the name of the image file
    between @s (file format included[@mypic.bmp@]),
    selecting them from a specified file (see below)
    and applying object styles to them, as well as
    applying the right tab i necesary.
    It then looks for overflows in the document. If an
    overset is found, it will resize to margin size the
    text frame and if overset continues, it will add a
    new page and frame, which then will be linked
    to the previous frame, allowing the story flow.
    Questo file deve essere copiato nella cartella Script di InDesign
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//Replace "myDocumentPreset" in the following line with the name
//of the document preset you want to use.
var myDocument = app.documents.add(true,app.documentPresets.item("MyPreset"));
//If the active document has not been saved (ever), save it.
if(app.activeDocument.saved == false){
//If you do not provide a file name, InDesign displays the Save dialog box.
app.activeDocument.save(new File("/Users/paolbot/Desktop/Document.indd"));
function main()
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);
var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:myGetBounds(myDocument,myPage)});
myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.textColumnCount = 7;
myTextFrame.place(File("/Users/paolbot/Desktop/text.txt"));
//Place a text file in the text frame.
//Parameters for TextFrame.place():
//File as File object,
//[ShowingOptions as Boolean = False]
//You'll have to fill in your own file path.
//Define GREP search
var grepFind ="@@@.+@@@";
//Name of the folder where pdf are
var myFiguresFolder = "pictures";
// Stile Paragrafo applicato
var myPStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Normal");
var NextPStyleCS = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style");
var NextPStyleEN = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style_en");
var NextPStyleDE = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style_de");
// Text style applied
var myCStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("text");
//Object style applyed
var myOStyle = "";
var oStyle_1 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
var oStyle_2 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
var oStyle_3 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
//MEASUREMENTS
var maxWidth = 467; //Maximum width of an image
var maxHeight = 666; //Maximum Height of an image
var colWidth = 468; //Width of the main columb (340pt) + maximum Tab (128pt)
var maxTab = 0;
var xTab;
var xtTab;
var minTWidth = 340; //any image with a width below this will have the maximum Tab (maxTab) applied.
var PWidth; //Width of the Picture
var PHeight;//Picture Height
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On a Windows-based PC, all I need to do is select, copy, then paste into a Word document. All text and images would paste. I can't seem to figure out how to do that in Pages or Word (have MS Office for Mac, too).
Thanks for any help.

I suppose I was hoping I could do on my Mac, what I did on my Dell...that doesn't appear to be the case.
Specifically, I'm talking about clicking/dragging to select what I want (including images), opening a Word document then pasting everying, including ALL selected images. More specifically, at sites with game walkthroughs. I prefer to save them to a document and refer to them offline, if I need to. I actually tried it at 2 different sites (one that hosts their own images and one that does not), with the same results.
While I was waiting for a response (thank you, so much, by the way), I tried again and actually managed to get the first 3 images (of 60+) to paste into Word. There were blank places in Word, but the invisible images were clickable. In Pages, only the text pasted.
Tried it every which way, but Sunday, LOL, and nothing worked. If it can't be done on my Mac, then I'll just keep using my Dell (I knew there was a reason I decided to keep it) for that sort of thing and then email them to myself...or try installing my MS Office '07 under virtual Windows.
Thanks, again.

Search .docx and replace text with image

I've got a directory containing a series of images. The images will always be the same name and I need to insert them into placeholders in a Word document which will be a template. I thought of using the image names as placeholders, opening the document
and searching for the image name, replacing it by inserting the image, and doing so for each image in the directory.
$file is the name of the image in the directory and it loops through them okay.
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem $savepath -Filter *.jpg)
# search word doc and replace selected text with image ($file)
Also inserting the image seems simple enough from a TechNet article I found, but I've got no idea how to open the Word document and do a search and replace. I found a few articles related to the subject but I couldn't get them to work when I tried to adapt
them.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

This 'might' be possible, but I'm having a hard time finding good references to the com object capabilities for inserting an image into a word document. Creating new, converting format, that sort of thing is straightforward.
I'd do a search on "powershell word comobject" and variations of insert image update edit, etc. Or maybe someone else with more experience/knowledge has a magic bullet for you. Once you get some info on doing it with powershell, expand
your search by omitting the powershell keyword, there's gotta be some solid documentation for the comobject somwhere, but it will probably be a bit complex.
You can also:
$word = new-object -comobject word.application
$doc = $word.documents.add("<path to word document>"
and get-member to your heart's content, but finding references and/or documentation might be easier.
Good luck!
Edit: This could help, but really doesn't give much insight into placement of the image, only helps getting the image into the doc: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/44ffc6c8-131f-42f1-b24b-ff92230b2e0a
If you do find something useful, post it here, I'm sure others could benefit!
SubEdit: Should have thought of this already...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff837519(v=office.14).aspx

Replace text with images

Hi,
I'm using a script found here, to replace @equ001.pdf@ with the corresponding image, same for eq002 etc.
This script works more or less ok for me.
Sometimes, it removes some image names without replacing the image, sometimes it was leaving some "@" here and there.
Sometimes, it's giving me an error on the "place image" code, saying it cannot find the image, giving it's path ending with the grep expression $2 and doesn't work at all.
Sometimes it does part of the job, stops, gives the same error as above, and continues to work when I click ok.
Today, it didn't worked on a document. I copied the text to work on into a new InDesign document an there, it worked (but in two times).
Is there any other way of doing this ?
if(app.documents.length != 0){
 var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog ('Choose a folder with images');
 if(myFolder != null){
 // reset the Find/Change dialog
 app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
 // formulate a grep search string
 app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '@.+?@';
 // find all occurrence, last one first
 f = app.activeDocument.findGrep (true);
 for (i = 0; i < f.length; i++){
 // construct file name
 name = f[i].contents.replace (/@/g, '');
 // place the image
 var placedObjects = f[i].insertionPoints[0].place (File (myFolder.fsName + '/' + name));
 // delete all @??@ codes
 app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
else{
 alert('Please open a document and try again.');

You should process the found instances back to front:
for (i = f.length-1; i >= 0; i--)
Peter

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Need help with adding formatted text and images to Crystal Report?

Here's my scenario:
I have a customer statement that's generated as a crystal report and that has a placeholder for advertisement. The advertisement is mixture of formatted text and images. Until now we only had one advertisement that was always used on the report. The new requirement is that we would have a pool of hundreds of advertisements and would need to display one specific advertisement on the customer statement based on various marketing criteria. They key is that the advertisement content will be determined programmatically and cannot be hardcoded into the report. I'm using Crystal2008 with .net SDK.
Here are the solutions I thought of, but I'm still rather lost and would appreciate your help/opinion.
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2) Create each add as a subreport and append it programatically
I actually have this working, but I only know how to append a new section to the end of the report and then load the subreport to the section. I have no other controll of the placement. Is there a way to dynamically load a subreport to a predefined section in the main report? How about adding a dummy subreport in the main report as a placeholder and then replacing it with a different subreport? How could I do this?
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I would create each advertisement as an image and then would somehow add the image to the report. How would I load the image and control the placement? Could I somehow define a placeholder for the image in the main report-maybe a dummy image to be replaced?
Thank you.

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I would got the third way.
You can use dynamic images in your report.
Just by changing the URL to the image the image can be changed.
Please see the [Crystal Manual|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/cr2008/en/xir3_cr_usergde_en.pdf] and search for images.
or directly here
[Setting a Dynamic Graphic Location Path on an Image Object|https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/506]
[Dynamic image and HTTP://|https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/3646]
[codesample for .NET|https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/6000]
Please also use
[Crystal Reports 2008 SDK Documentation and Sample Code|https://boc.sdn.sap.com/developer/library/CR2008SDK]
[Crystal Reports 2008 .NET SDK Tutorial Samples|https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/6203]
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Your talking about photoshop elements 4?
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I am composing a Catalog with a lot of images along with the text. The source images are often not square (perfectly vertical, portrait). I also want to add a thin line frame around each one in InDesign to spurce up the look. I'm spending a lot of time in Photoshop straightening images, because rotating in Indesign to get the image straight results in a non-straight frame.
Should I create a small library of frames that I place, then place non-straight images in them (and how do I do that) and rotate in InDesign? Etc?
What would be the most efficient way to do this?
Thanks

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