insert inset in anchored frame

OK, I have it working now. There is just one glitch I cannot get to work properly, as it appears to be a bug in the SVG import. When importing the SVG that is built out of all the graphic components in the anchored frame, the height of the SVG is correct but the width is not. There is whitespace on either side of the original graphic and there is no way I can get rid of that. I inspected the SVG in a viewer and it looks fine, without the white space. When importing that file in FM, there is a lot of extra space and this causes FM to scale the image down.

As I do not really need the FM layout to be correct - FM is to be used as the structured editor, not the publishing engine - I won't spend any more time on this right now. I might figure something out in the future and then make the code available as a plug-in. At that point I will want to include references between the text and the callouts in the graphic, and some more goofy stuff that might be useful when publishing to XML and interactive HTML.

Ciao

Jang

Hi Jang,

I thought you'd rather just fire anyone for even thinking up such an idea (inside joke, apologies to the public!)

I'm not sure exactly what your requirements are, but my assumption is that you need to first insert a text frame, then import the inset into that text frame. Here is a basic function that does that, where insetPath is a fully-qualified path to the inset file. I imagine it could be expanded to account for other variations, like importing a different flow, etc.

function importTextInsetToAFrame(doc, aFrame, insetPath)
{
    if(!doc.ObjectValid() || !aFrame.ObjectValid())
    {
        alert("Document or frame object is invalid.");
        return;
    }
    
    //Create a new text frame in the anchored frame
    var textFrame = doc.NewGraphicObject(Constants.FO_TextFrame, aFrame);
    if(textFrame.ObjectValid())
    {
        //Position and size the text frame to fit the anchored frame, with a two-point
        //buffer on all sides.
        textFrame.LocX = (2 * 65536);
        textFrame.LocY = (2 * 65536);
        textFrame.Width = aFrame.Width - (4 * 65536);
        textFrame.Height = aFrame.Height - (4 * 65536);
    }

    //get the first paragraph in the new frame and
    //set up a text location for the import
    var pgf = textFrame.FirstPgf;
    var textLoc = new TextLoc(pgf, 0);

    //set up the prop vals structures and do the import.
    var importParms = GetImportDefaultParams();
    var returnParms = new PropVals();
    
    doc.Import (textLoc, insetPath, importParms, returnParms);
}    

Russ