Indesign - rectangle problem

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#1

i am creating a rectangle box using:

set myBox to make rectangle with properties {geometric bounds:{0.0, 0.0, 11, 8.5}, stroke weight:"0", stroke color:none}

and I get a box with a 1 point rule around it, originally it was black, but now the line is red. It seems like whatever state I left indesign in before I ran this script, it’s picking up those settings.

What’s the best way to “reset” the color of lines and fills, etc? before actually making a rectangle.

ALSO… what’s the best way for me to show screen captures, or jpgs of my results on here since I can’t attach a graphic to these posts?

thanks
david

#2

ID has prefs that a larger than some other apps I would suggest you look at page item default for this.

#3

that really doesn’t explain anything for me. Maybe i’m dense.

Here’s what I tried…


tell page 2 of document 1
		
		set anchored object settings of document 1 to {anchor point:center anchor}
		set geometric bounds of MyDup to {0, 8.5, 2.5, 11.125}
		
		move MyDup to {11.5, 5.5}
		set rotation angle of MyDup to 180
		
	end tell

AS comes back and says it can’t set that value…

david

#4

This works to set the stroke color to “None” in IDCS4:

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS4”
tell document 1
tell page 1
set myBox to make rectangle with properties {geometric bounds:{0.0, 0.0, 200, 500}, stroke weight:“0”, stroke color:“None”}
–return properties of myBox
end tell
end tell
end tell

#5

This works perfectly here:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
	activate
	tell document 1
		tell page 1
			set myBox to make rectangle with properties {geometric bounds:{0.0, 0.0, 11, 8.5}, stroke weight:0, fill color:"None", stroke color:"None"}
		end tell
	end tell
end tell