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Re: INDESIGN: Problem with Object Placement
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Re: INDESIGN: Problem with Object Placement


  • Subject: Re: INDESIGN: Problem with Object Placement
  • From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 20:57:43 -0700

You're right, for all normal circumstances -- except that I often use a plug-in, DTPTools PageControl, that allows multiple pages sizes, and also vertical spreads, in a document.

But thanks for the warning, as I probably should just write a separate variant for situations when I working with a document that uses that feature.

Also, now with the workaround that seems to be required to avoid spread-calculated offsets for the rectangles, y2 and x2 (practically speaking, barring vertical spreads, the focus is on x2) require a recalculation:

set x2 to (item 4 of GeometricBounds) - (item 2 of GeometricBounds)

Rick Gordon

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On 5/7/08 at 1:08 PM +1000, Shane Stanley wrote in a message entitled
"Re: INDESIGN: Problem with Object Placement":

>On 7/5/08 12:41 PM, "Rick Gordon" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> set GeometricBounds to {item 1 of bounds, item 2 of bounds, item 3 of bounds,
>> item 4 of bounds}
>
>That's awfully inefficient -- it's asking InDesign for the bounds four times
>(look in the log). And you're then doing it for every page, even though the
>bounds you want are going to be the same throughout.
>
>Why not something like:
>
><outside the loop>
>set pageBounds to bounds of page 1
><inside loop>
>
> make new rectangle at end with properties {stroke weight:pEdgeStrokeWeight,
>stroke color:pEdgeStrokeColor, stroke alignment:outside alignment,
>geometric bounds: pageBounds, text wrap type:none, label:pLabel & vCount}
>
>
>--
>Shane Stanley <email@hidden>

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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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