move to margin corners

Hi,

I can see a workaround like this:

1. prepare measurments and zeroPoint in your Doc

    to calculate corner's we need to use page.bounds (+/- particular margin)

    and page.bounds are returned in POINTS

2. make sure a doc IS NOT facing pages

    to simplify move(to:[x,y]) procedure

3. get IDMS into array

    alike you did it

4. iterate through this array, count steps

    shift elements - so array length decreases

5. set last page as a target and place current snippet to this page (some default location, no matter where)

6. check current step value and switch corner calculation using 'case: step'

    assumings: originally snippet's absoluteRotationAngle = 0

    according to above we need to calculate [x,y] values as a target for moving  snippet's LeftUp corner.

7. if step%4 == 3 check folderIn length

    if NOT END -- add a new page and update cPage and margins vars

8. move current snippet to a proper point

9. next step

code to check:

var  mDoc = app.activeDocument;
mDoc.documentPreferences.facingPages = false;
app.transformPreferences.transformationsAreTotals = true;
with (mDoc.viewPreferences) {
    horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
    verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
    rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN;
    }
mDoc.zeroPoint = [0,0];
//|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
var
    myFolder = File("D:\\PNG"), 
    folderIn = myFolder.getFiles("*.idms"),
    cFile,
    cPage = mDoc.pages[-1],
    margins = detectMargins(cPage),
    step = -1, inSnp, cCorner,
    mSize = {
        w: 0,
        h: 0
        }; 
while ( cFile = folderIn.shift() ) { 
    step++;
    inSnp = cPage.place(cFile)[0];
    mSize.w = inSnp.geometricBounds[3] -  inSnp.geometricBounds[1];
    mSize.h = inSnp.geometricBounds[2] -  inSnp.geometricBounds[0];
    switch (step%4) {
        case 0:
            cCorner = [
                margins.left,
                margins.top,
                ];
            break;
        case 1:
            cCorner = [
                margins.left,
                margins.bottom - mSize.h,
                ];
            break;
        case 2:
            cCorner = [
                margins.right - mSize.w,
                margins.top
                ];
            break;
        case 3:
            cCorner = [
                margins.right - mSize.w,
                margins.bottom - mSize.h,
                ];
            if (!folderIn.length) break;
            cPage = mDoc.pages.add(LocationOptions.AT_END);
            margins = detectMargins(cPage);
        }
    inSnp.move(cCorner);   
    } 
function detectMargins(mPage) {
    return new Object ({ 
        top: mPage.marginPreferences.top, 
        left: mPage.marginPreferences.left, 
        bottom: mPage.bounds[2] - mPage.marginPreferences.bottom, 
        right: mPage.bounds[3] - mPage.marginPreferences.right 
        });
    }

Jarek