Script to rotate selected image inside frame Data merge

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July 22, 2023
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Hi

I am preparing a date merge process , I want to rotate each image of 5 images by a certain angle different from other images

I found that no object style can i apply to do that

Is there are a script to do that Automatically

Scripting

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Correct answer m1b

Hi @r28071715i111, my idea was that you set up the script labels before datamerge and then run script after datamerge.

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

My point is if there is no logic that comes in from the merged data and we have to go to every frame one by one anyhow even in the case of using @m1b's script then why don't we do it manually. Script could help only if we can narrow down the use case of going to each frame. Something like all graphics on page 1 rotates by 15 degrees, etc.

-Manan

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r28071715i111Author

Known Participant

We can't do it manually because it takes a lot of time

suppose that we have 500 pages and each page contain 5 graphic frames each of them rotate by certain angle that mean 2500 images , it will spend too much hours .

Thanks for your reply

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

If you know upfront which image should be rotated and by how much - and it looks like you know, as you can set labels to the frames - then you can rotate them in Photoshop BEFORE importing...

m1b

Community Expert

Hi @r28071715i111, here's an idea (and a working script). First you select each graphic (can be the graphic or it's frame) and set its Script Label (see the Script Label panel under Windows > Utilities menu) to "rotate: 15" where the 15 means 15 degrees counterclockwise. Will that work in your case? Script is below, and I've attached a demo .indd also so you can test script with that first.

- Mark

/**
 * Apply rotation to graphics with a "rotate" script label.
 * eg. if label is "rotate: 15", then the graphic will be
 * rotated by 15° counter-clockwise.
 * @author m1b
 * @discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/script-to-rotate-selected-image-inside-frame-data-merge/m-p/13955151
 */
function main() {

    var doc = app.activeDocument,
        tm = app.transformationMatrices.add({ counterclockwiseRotationAngle: 0 }),
        images = doc.allGraphics,
        matcher = /^rotate:(-?\d+\.?\d*)/i,
        label,
        value;

    for (var i = 0; i < images.length; i++) {

        label = images[i].label || images[i].parent.label;

        if (!label)
            continue;

        value = label.match(matcher);

        if (!value
            || value.length < 2
            || isNaN(value = Number(value[1]))
        )
            continue;

        images[i].transform(
            CoordinateSpaces.pasteboardCoordinates,
            AnchorPoint.centerAnchor,
            tm.rotateMatrix(-images[i].absoluteRotationAngle + value),
        );

    }

};

app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Rotate Graphics');

demo.zip