InDesign: Reveal Links in Finder

Loops through all the selected items, attempts to figure out whether any of them are linked images, and opens their containing folders, selecting all of ‘em.

Download Reveal-links-in-Finder.rb.zip.

The source code is bouncing from foot to foot in anticipatory glee, just after the jump.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# rb-appscript code by Ian Haigh : http://ianhaigh.com/
# Fri Dec  4 11:09:29 EST 2009

# loops through all the selected items, attempts to figure out whether any of
# them are linked images, and opens their containing folders, selecting all of
# 'em.

require 'rubygems'
require 'appscript'
include Appscript

def allItemLinks(objList)
	@myList = []

	objList.each do |obj|
		if [:PDF, :image].include?(obj.class_.get) then
			@myList << obj.item_link.file_path.get
		else
			obj.all_graphics.get.each do |img|
				@myList << img.item_link.file_path.get
			end
		end
	end
	@myList
end

@id = app('Adobe InDesign CS4.app')
@doc = @id.active_document

x = allItemLinks(@id.selection.get)
@finder = app('Finder.app')

# make an array with every image folder
image_folders = []
x.each { |path| image_folders << path.slice(/^.+:/) }

# reveal one file first
begin
	@finder.reveal(x[0])
rescue Exception => e
	puts "Couldn't reveal #{x[0]}"
end

# attempt to select all the files simultaneously
image_folders.uniq.each do |folder|
	begin
		@finder.open(folder)
		files_in_this_folder = x.select { |c| c.include?(folder) }
		@finder.set(:selection, :to => files_in_this_folder)
	rescue Exception => e
		puts "Couldn't reveal #{folder}:"
		puts e
	end

end

@finder.activate