Re: InDesign text frame baseline shift
Re: InDesign text frame baseline shift
- Subject: Re: InDesign text frame baseline shift
- From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:20:55 -0700
- Thread-topic: InDesign text frame baseline shift
On 5/7/06 12:20 PM, Michel Raj wrote:
> I am trying to do the following :
> Replace a selection of text by an anchored text box which would have a
> baseline shift of 8.
>
> At the moment, I have the following, which is ok, but I cannot give the
> text frame "myTF" the desired baseline shift.
>
> tell application "InDesign CS"
> activate
> delete selection
> set myTF to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{3, 60,
> 0, 0}} at selection
> set point size of text of myTF to 6
> set contents of myTF to "some text"
> end tell
>
> Any cue ?
>
> Also, how do I apply a paragraph or character style to a text ?
>
> There are probably other ways to do what I want, but I asked myself how
> to do it in AS... so I am trying...
Here is your code with modifications to do what you are asking:
tell application "InDesign CS"
activate
delete selection
set myTF to make text frame with properties ¬
{geometric bounds:{3, 60, 0, 0}} at selection
set point size of text of myTF to 6
set contents of myTF to "some text"
-- apply character and paragraph styles
set applied character style of text of myTF to "Special Italic"
set applied paragraph style of text of myTF to "Section Header"
-- define myTF as text object and adjust it
set refTF to parent of object reference of myTF
tell refTF
set baseline shift to 8.0
set justification to center align
end tell
end tell
The variable refTF is a reference to the anchored text frame as a text
object. OMM it is:
text from character 1 to character 1 of story id 137
of document "Test.indd" of application "InDesign CS"
Note that there are very few text properties that can be applied to an
anchored text frame. While I know that baseline shift and justification
work, I leave it to you to determine exactly which other commands do.
Stan Cleveland
Color Technology Inc.
Portland, Oregon
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