indesign newbie help

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#1

i have just started with applescript and my goal is to learn to script indesign.

i have looked at the documentation from adobe and made this script:


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	set myDocument to make document
	tell page 1 of myDocument
		set myRectangle to make rectangle
	end tell
end tell

how can i get the rectangle size to be the same as the size of the document??
(without hardcoding the size, because the document size changes)

#2

Hi,
give this a try!

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	activate
	set myDocument to make document
	set {b, a, d, c} to bounds of page 1 of document 1
	
	tell page 1 of myDocument
		set myRectangle to make rectangle
		set geometric bounds of myRectangle to {b, a, d, c}
	end tell
end tell

Thanks,
Nik

#3

that worked. thanks! :smiley:

when i put stroke on, the stroke grows from the middle leaving half the rectangle outside the bounds of the document.
anyone know how to avoid this??

#4

HI,
Basically it creates a record of each coordinate and then the values from that record are telling the rectangle to make itself that size.
Hope that helps?
Thanks,
Nik

#5

Hi Demi

Just amend Blend3’s script to this:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	activate
	set myDocument to make document
	set {b, a, d, c} to bounds of page 1 of document 1
	
	tell page 1 of myDocument
		set myRectangle to make rectangle with properties {stroke alignment:center alignment}
		set geometric bounds of myRectangle to {b, a, d, c}
	end tell
end tell