Hi Eugene, In the scripting API there’s no width and height property, which can be a block when you are starting to script—you have to get the width and height from the .geometricBounds property. You also have to watchout for the ruler units—is 1 x 2 inches or centimeters?
So this gets the selected object’s width and height from its bounds in inch units—geometricBounds is an array of 4 numbers [top, left, bottom, right] or [y1, x1, y2, x2]. Height would be bottom – top, and width would be right – left.
//using inches for the script
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;
//the selected page item
var s = app.activeDocument.selection[0];
//get the item’s width and height
var b = s.geometricBounds;
var w = b[3]-b[1]
var h = b[2]-b[0]
alert(w + " X " + h)
//reset
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = AutoEnum.AUTO_VALUE;
But if the object is rotated I get this:
If you want to get or set all of a document’s page items, including items inside of groups, there is the document’s allPageItems property, which returns an array of page items that you can loop thru. You don’t have to select() the object to change its properties—this gets all the doc page items and checks if w & h are 1 & 3 and if they are, sets its overprintFill to true:
//all the document’s page items, including items inside of groups
var api = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
//using inches for the script
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;
//declare the width and height variables one time outside of the loop
var b, w, h;
for (var i = 0; i < api.length; i++){
b = api[i].geometricBounds;
//the object’s width and height
w = b[3]-b[1];
h = b[2]-b[0];
//if both w & h are exactly 1" x 3" set its overprint to true
if (w == 1 && h == 3) {
api[i].overprintFill = true;
}
};
//reset
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = AutoEnum.AUTO_VALUE;
Also, consider the accuarcy of the page item’s width and height—the above would skip an object that is 1.001" x 3".
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