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Anonymous

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How to detect a polygon text area

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June 1, 2009
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In my script I am looking at each textFrame to determine its alignment and orientation. No problem here. But, I also need to determine if the artist has specified a polygon rather than the standard rectangle for the text area. Is there a way to do this in the script?

Thanks in advance - Steve

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Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

Have you tried looking at the path item/entire path properties of the text frame. Seems like more than 4 would indicate a polygon (except for 8 which could be a rounded rectangle).

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Anonymous

Larry - thanks for the suggestion but I wasn't able to get the following to work:

confirm(sourceDoc.textFrames.pathItem.entirePath)

or

confirm (sourceDoc.textFrames.pathItem.pathPoints)

I receive the "undefined is not an object" error message.

It is probably of note that I am only looking at textFrames that meet the following criteria:

kind == 'TextType.AREATEXT'

Also - I am scripting for CS3 not CS4 should this be a new property.

Am I doing something wrong? Or do I need to upgrade to CS4?

Steve

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

Hi Steve, you can accomplish that by comparing the area property of the TextPath against your own square calculated area (width * height), if they are different then it is a polygon.

' // code

A = YourTextFrame.TextPath.Area

W = YourTextFrame.TextPath.Width

H = YourTextFrame.TextPath.Height

if A = W*H then

msgbox "it is a square"

else

msgbox "it is a polygon"

end if

' // end code

sorry, I only do VB, but you get the idea to turn it into JS or AS

CarlosCanto

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