[JS][CS3] Copy-Paste

Question

Hi
I am pretty sure this has been asked before, but I cannot find it in the forum.
Is there a way to include in the JS a copy method to select an image, and paste into a text frame as an inline graphic?  I have placed images as inline graphics before with JS, but I was using a path to a folder.  In this new case, I cannot point to a folder for the image as the image is not on an attached volume, I am carrying out this script on a document already populated, but with missing links.
I hope this makes sense to someone!
Cheers
Roy

Answer 1

Hi Roy,
It can indeed be done that way. You just have to select the insertion point (and I mean select in this case) before issuing the paste.
I prefer to use a library to achieve this goal, along these lines (this code assumes I already have a library open):
      var myTableTab = myDoc.textFrames.item("TableTab").getElements()[0];
      // Move TableTab inline using library for temp storage
      var temp = projLibrary.store(myTableTab);
      temp.placeAsset(myStory.paragraphs[tableLoc].insertionPoints[0]);
      temp.remove();
      myTableTab.remove();
An advantage of this approach is that it leaves the clipboard unchanged.
Dave