IDCS6 MAC OSX: trying to make a map to new spot script

Question

Hello all.
I have a plethora of InDesign files that contain a custom-named spot color called PMS 295. So that the colour can be properly mapped using our RIP it needs to have the correct name "PANTONE 295 C" but the correctly renaming the source of the offending colour has the potential to affect other work. I'm after a script that will make the properly named colour and then map the PMS 295 colour to the correctly named colour.
For ONCE, I have tried to do this myself, and I have the first part sorted! I can add the colour to the document using the following snippet of code:
app.activeDocument.importAdobeSwatchbookSpotColor ("PANTONE 295 C");
But getting the ink manager to map PMS 295 to this newly added colour is doing my head in. Is this something that is possible to script?
Many thanks
Colly

Answer 1

@Colly –  sometimes we use descriptive variables to illustrate something. The "my" in the name is always an indication, that a variable is in play, that has to be defined elsewhere… We could debate now, if that is "good style" or not, but no. I don't do that right now ;-)
It's kind of "dummy" code and not meant to work immediately.
In the case of "myDocument", you could use an additional line of code to define the variable "myDocument" at the start of the snippet and leave all other incidences of "myDocument" unchanged in the code:
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
or you work with index 0 in an array like fashion:
var myDocument = app.documents[0];
or in a collection like fashion ("documents" is a collection of single document objects, and if you want to point out that to you, use the following syntax):
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
or you could have worked with the name of an open document (amongst others):
var myDocument = app.documents.itemByName("MyDocumentName.indd");
There are other examples as well…
Uwe