How Do I Rotate Content, Not the Frame

On 24/1/09 4:19 AM, "Achy Fakey" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote:<br /><br />> I am trying your suggestion, but I the script hangs at the term "image 1" (or<br />> even just "image").<br /><br />Use "graphic" instead of image -- image means bitmap picture, whereas<br />graphic refers to any sort.<br /><br />-- <br />Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au><br />AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <a href=http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

You get the same results because you're rotating container, not contents. You should rotate the image inside the rectangle, not the rectangle.

Your definitions are what I would expect, but for me, applying each version as one of these two separate scripts:

1)
tell application "InDesign CS"
activate
set rotation angle of selection to 10
end tell

2)
tell application "InDesign CS"
activate
set absolute rotation angle of selection to 10
end tell

Gives me the same result. The frame rotates and the content rotates with it.

Let me start over with my problem as that may help...

So let's say I have a frame and it has rotation 0˚. Inside the frame I have an object rotated to 5˚.

Applying either of those two scripts has the same result. The frame rotates to 10˚ and the content (when selected with the direct selection tool) now shows a rotation of 15˚.

But what I want is for the frame to stay at 0˚ and the content (when selected with the direct selection tool) to show a rotation of 15˚.

I am thinking this may be relates to the "Transform Content" and "Transformations Are Totals" preference settings. Both of which I have turned on. I know how to turn them on and off with an AppleScript, but it doesn't seem to be helping.

I don't have neither ID CS1 nor its reference, so I can't check if the syntax is correct.
There is a difference between absolute rotation angle and rotation angle:

absolute rotation angle The rotation angle applied to the object, not including any rotation applied to its containing object.

rotation angle The rotation angle applied to the object, including any rotation applied to its containing object.

I prefer to use absolute rotation angle.

I am trying your suggestion, but I the script hangs at the term "image 1" (or even just "image").

Not sure where to go from there.

What really confuses me is that I thought that "set rotation angle" should adjust the frame while "set absolute rotation angle" would adjust only the content, not the frame. But they both give me the same result of rotating the frame. Argybargy!

P.S. So, your line should be:
set rotation angle of image 1 of selection to 10

Hi Achy,

I'm on CS3, but hope it will work on CS1.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
set myDoc to active document
set myFrame to rectangle 1 of myDoc
set myImage to image 1 of myFrame
set absolute rotation angle of myImage to 10
end tell

Kasyan