I've got the following problem/situation:
What I want to do now, is to write a script to color every picture with a different color swatch, e.g. the picture on page 1 with color swatch "1", the picture on page 2 with color swatch "2" etc. But I don't know how to access the picture itself (instead of the frame) and change its color. Is this even possible?
Thanks in advance.
This should do the trick. It currently sets random color for the images and only looks for rectangles. You could use
page.allPageItems
instead. (if you also have images in ovals or polygons)
// the main function
var main = function() {
var doc = app.activeDocument; // get the current document
// loop the pages
for (var i = 0; i < doc.pages.length; i++) {
var page = doc.pages[i]; // isolate the page
// loop all rectangles
for(var j = 0; j < page.rectangles.length;j++){
var rect = page.rectangles[j]; // isolate a rectangle
// test if there is an image inside
if(rect.images.length > 0){
var image = rect.images[0]; // isolate the image
// asign a random color from th swatches
image.fillColor = doc.swatches[Math.floor(Math.random()* doc.swatches.length -1)];
} // end if image
} // end loop j rectangles
} // end loop i pages
} // end of main
main(); // run it