PageItem Co-ordinate w.r.t. Spread Co-ordinate System

Question

Hi All,

I am trying to get coordinates of text frame with respect to spread co-ordinate system.
I have used following code for this:

InterfacePtr frameGeometry(textFrame, IID_IGEOMETRY);
PMRect frmRect = frameGeometry->GetPathBoundingBox();
::InnerToParent(textFrame, &frmRect);

Here textFrame is the ITextFrame pointer of which I want to get coordiantes w.r.t. Spread. The problem is dimensions in frmRect doesnot change even after transformation using InnerToParent().

Can anyone suggest me in this regard, where I am wrong?

- Pete

Emanuele_Nava · Answer

Hi Pete,I think your problem is that the parent of kMultiColumnItemBoss or kFrameItemBoss (the only bosses that could store the ITextFrame interface you start from) is kSplineItemBoss and not kSpreadBoss. With your call to TransformUtils::InnerToParent you are likely getting the coords in the spline item's coordinate space and not in the spread's one. The SDK documentation specifies that "The parent coordinate space is the first ancestor boss object on IHierarchy that has an IGeometry interface". HTH,Emanuele.

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