Changing document size on opening AI file

I'm trying to do the same thing: adjust a document's height and width from the API.

AIDocumentSuite::SetDocumentSetup() evidently does not accomplish this. An action (as suggested above by A. Patterson) will not record past the Menu Item, so the new values entered into the Document Setup dialog are not registered as part of the action. Hence I have no height/width parameters in the text to play with using PlayAction().

All I really need to be able to do is swap the orientation of an existing document to landscape from portrait (or vice-versa) from a script or preferably from the API. Something like:

AIDocumentSetup setup;
sAIDocument->GetDocumentSetup(&setup); /* from current document */

AIReal tempWidth = setup.width;
setup.width = setup.height;
setup.height = tempWidth;

sAIDocument->SetDocumentSetup(&setup); /* changes applied back to current document */

Does anyone have some helpful insight that will help me get this working?

Thanks!
Jeff

If you want to use the Action Manager, create your own action set & record a macro of changing the document size. The save the action set (.aia) on to your desktop or somewhere you can find easily. Open the .aia in a text editor and it should present the action name & the parameter names it's expecting. That should let you feed those into the AIActionManager::PlayAction() method -- and use whatever numbers you want for the page size.

Hope that helps!

in vb script is it done as---- as its a read only property cant be changed later

Dim appRef
Dim garmentDoc
Set garmentDoc = appRef.Documents
garmentDoc.Add 2,2160,3600

Thanks for replying.

Do you mean I can use Action Manager to change the document size programatically without user's input? Please give more detail.

Regards,

John

You should be able to accomplish this with the scripting capabilities.

Regards,

-jeshua