Indesign scripting: can't relink image

Question

I'm trying to come up with a simple script that relinks an image (eps file) in Indesign.

This is what I've come up with so far

//find item and get path
var myItem = app.activeDocument.links.item("MyCurrentimage.eps");
var myItemPath = myItem.filePath;
//define new image path
var newPath = "P:\\images\\otherfolder\\newimage.eps";
//relink
myItem.relink(myItemPath,newPath);

I keep getting a message saying "Cannot create the link resource from the given URI". Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

I finally got it to work by using relink with new File()

//target item
var itemIwantToReplace = app.activeDocument.links.item("MyCurrentimage.eps");
//relink
itemIwantToReplace.relink(new File("P:\\Images\\myNewImage.eps"));

Answer 2

这实际上只是一个猜测，但也许它会将您的newPath视为一个字符串，而不是一个 URI，因此您需要传递一个实际的 URL 对象。

var newPath = new URL("P:\images\otherfolder\newimage.eps");

Answer 3

You can use this:

var myItem = app.activeDocument.links.item("MyCurrentimage.eps");
var myItemPath = myItem.filePath;
var newPath = new File("P:\\images\\otherfolder\\newimage.eps");

myItem.relink(newPath);