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Obi-wan Kenobi
Obi-wan Kenobi
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March 26, 2016
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Find frames and resize them! …

  • March 26, 2016
  • 1 reply
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Hi,

This simple script works fine:

var myTF = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().getElements()


for(i=0; i<myTF .length; i++)


{


    myStoreBounds = myTF.geometricBounds 


    myTF.geometricBounds = [myStoreBounds[0], myStoreBounds[1], myStoreBounds[0] +50, myStoreBounds[1] +50]


}

But not this one:

var myWidth = "50 mm"


var myHeight = "50 mm"


app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().resize(  


      CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES,


      AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR,


      ResizeMethods.REPLACING_CURRENT_DIMENSIONS_WITH,


      [ myWidth, myHeight ]


);

I'm curious to know why! 

What I truly want to do is: select several graphic frames (not a find/replace and not text frames) and resize them using this: AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR

Another way would be to find graphic frames by their color [e.g. "Red"].

Thanks for your help and your lenience! 

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1 reply

Peter Kahrel
Community Expert
Peter KahrelCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2016

.resize() takes as input only numbers and they are always interpreted as points. To use millimeters, convert them to points:

var myWidth = UnitValue('50mm').as('pt');


var myHeight = UnitValue('50mm').as('pt');

To select several frames and resize them, you could do something like this:

for (i = 0; i < app.selection; i++) {


  app.selection.resize(. . .);


}

Peter

Obi-wan Kenobi
Obi-wan KenobiAuthor
Legend
March 26, 2016

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your help!

About the first point, this works fine!    So the 2 versions are OK.

2 last questions about their writing:

• If I only want to treat graphic or undefined frames, I only found this but I don't really understand if good and how to insert them in the code:


ObjectTypes.ALL_FRAMES_TYPE    All frame types.

ObjectTypes.GRAPHIC_FRAMES_TYPE    Graphics frame.

ObjectTypes.TEXT_FRAMES_TYPE    Text frame.

ObjectTypes.UNASSIGNED_FRAMES_TYPE    Unassigned frame.

• In this version, where can I add "AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR" to resize correctly the blocks?

var myTF = app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().getElements()


for(i=0; i<myTF .length; i++)


{


    myStoreBounds = myTF.geometricBounds


    myTF.geometricBounds = [myStoreBounds[0], myStoreBounds[1], myStoreBounds[0] +50, myStoreBounds[1] +50]


}

About the second point, It doesn't work! Surely something I've not understood!

I've selected some blocks and tried this:

var myWidth = UnitValue('10mm').as('pt'); 


var myHeight = UnitValue('10mm').as('pt'); 


for (i = 0; i < app.selection; i++) { 


  app.selection.resize( 


      CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES,


      AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR,


      ResizeMethods.REPLACING_CURRENT_DIMENSIONS_WITH,


      [ myWidth, myHeight ]);


}

Thanks!

Peter Kahrel
Community Expert
Peter KahrelCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 26, 2016

Sorry, in that code, the for loop is wrong, it should be like this:

for (i = 0; i < app.selection.length; i++) {



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