Re: InDesign text frame baseline shift
Re: InDesign text frame baseline shift
- Subject: Re: InDesign text frame baseline shift
- From: David Wolfe <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:12:12 -0400
Michel,
You might want to check the ruler origin in your document. This can
be different from document to document, and would definitely cause
the error you describe if it were off. You can double-click the upper-
left corner where the two rulers meet to reset it to 0,0. You could
also put a check into your script. I recently needed the same,
because one of our typesetters always drags the ruler origin around
the page to measure things and forgets to set it back to the top
left. Here's the code I used:
-- Setting Ruler Origin to Page instead of Spread
set theOrigin to ruler origin of view preferences of active document
if theOrigin is not page origin then
set ruler origin of view preferences of active document to page origin
end if
--Set Zero Point of Ruler to Zero (top-left trim of page)
set theRuler to zero point of active document
if theRuler is not {0, 0} then
set zero point of active document to {0, 0}
end if
Hope this might help.
David Wolfe
settingPace
On May 8, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Michel Raj wrote:
Thank's Stan,
Your script works, it's just what I wanted.
But my script works well in a test page, and not in my layout,
giving me a message saying that doing so would move objects out of
the "plan de travail", the working area.
It says so, even if I reduce the geometric bounds values ???
Michel
Le 08-mai-06, à 21:20, Stan Cleveland a écrit :
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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