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Parent of Link

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
December 24, 2018
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Hi,

When doing the image alignment, i have used to the below syntax to get the parent of the link and moving that object. For few images, its throwing an error. Because, parent of the link is returning as "Document". I don't know the reason.

var PgItem = myPage.place(imgPath,[0,0],undefined,false,true,undefined);

var parent = PgItem[0].parent;

Parent object is returning "Document" instead of "Rectangle".

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Anonymous

I had this same issue. Sometimes rect[0].parent code returns [object Rectange] and [object Document]

rect[0].parent // return [object Rectange] and [object Document]

And I could replicate this issue on a demo file (check attached)

I couldn't move the images around with document object.

Please confirm if this is a bug? any workaround would be appreciated?

demo.zip

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Seems some document corruption. I exported the file as IDML(download link here) and then the second image gives the result as Object Polygon. However i see in your document both the images are shown as embedded but IDML shows only the first image as embedded the one with problem is removed from the link panel. How was this element placed orginally on the dicument?

-Manan

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hm. Can you see a difference if you do:

PgItem[0].parent.getElements()[0]

instead of simply:

PgItem[0].parent

Regards,
Uwe

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Laubender

Community Expert

Scratch my last reply.

If an oval was converted to a rectangle it could still be considered an oval:

var doc = app.documents.add(), 
    obj = doc.ovals.add({geometricBounds : [0,0,100,100]}), 
    objId = obj.id; 
obj.convertShape(ConvertShapeOptions.CONVERT_TO_RECTANGLE); 
alert([ 
    "App Version:" +
    app.version,
    "Rectangles: " + 
        doc.rectangles.length, 
    "Ovals: " + 
        doc.ovals.length, 
    "Current object: " + 
        doc.pageItems.itemByID(objId).getElements()[0].constructor.name 
    ].join('\r'));

Result:

Regards,
Uwe

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Sudha_KAuthor

Inspiring

Hi,

Thank you for your reply... Then in that document they may used oval. Don't know about "Document". If i face that issue in upcoming, i will post that.

Thank you so much...

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Sudha,

strange.

Just tried your code with InDesign CC 2019 and the returned object for parent is [object Rectangle].

What's your version of InDesign?

To test your case and before running the script I placed an image so I could easily readout the link's filePath information to place the image again:

var myPage = app.documents[0].pages[0];
var file = File( app.documents[0].links[0].filePath );
var PgItem = myPage.place( file ,[0,0],undefined,false,true,undefined);
PgItem[0].parent // returns [object Rectangle]

Regards,
Uwe