Horizontal TextFrame fitting

This question came up in another thread this morning:

Dave Saunders, "CS3 Fit frame to content - always snaps frame to TOP!" #8, 24 Oct 2008 5:56 am

Dave

I have a textframe with bottomaligned text in it.
Now I want to fit the frame to the content.
In script this is
TextFrame.fit(FitOptions.frameToContent).
But this is resulting in the bottom edge of the frame going up until the frame fits around the text.
I want however to have the bottomline of the frame to stay where it is and the topline of the frame going down.
The same as double clicking the handle of the topline in the desktop version.
How can i do this in script?

You might want to take a look here:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbf275d.59b6878b/1

That topic was triggered by my posting here.

Dave

Thanks Dave! This is exactly what I needed.

You need to write a script. One way of doing it would be along these lines;

var gbs = myFrame.geometricBounds;
var maxR = getMax(myFrame.insertionPoints.everyItem().horizontalOffset);
gbs[3] = maxR;
myFrame.geometricBounds = gbs;

function getMax(anArray) {
return anArray.sort(revNumerical)[0];
function revNumerical(a,b) { return b-a }
}

This assumes that the frame has no inset or strokeweight. If it doesn't, this works like a charm. But if it did have them, you'd have to do extra work to take those into account. I guess it also assumes that the frame is rectangular.

Dave