Why are the geometric bounds not right?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 2, 2025
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var r  = app.activeDocument.rectangles.add({geometricBounds[".5in",".25in","2.5in","1.25in"]});

When I run this it's placing the item at X: 0.2431in, Y: 1.4931in. Can anyone confirm they get the same behaviour? And if you're in the know, could someone explain to me how something so unambiguous as 4 geometric points is being interpreted so strangely?

Scripting

K

kurtis_7676Author

Participant

I got the issue. Sorry folks my script wasn't actually accurate - I was missing a color. But even with the colon it persisted. The issue was that it's aligning to the stroke - so the .0069 inches out was because the stroke is 1pt, therefore it's offsetting by half, to center the stroke on the origin point.

Thanks for trying!

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

That was my point - screenshot would show the stroke and the mismatch.

K

kurtis_7676Author

Participant

OK?

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

How do you check those values?

What are the params for the stroke?

Can you post a screenshot of this item and what is InDesign showing in the Control Panel?

K

kurtis_7676Author

Participant

Not necessary - thanks for jumping in. To answe though, for example it was showing the X: value as '1.2431' if I set it in 1.25. It's an alignment setting I wasn't aware of (the story of my InDesign scripting life).

m1b

Community Expert

Hi @kurtis_7676 in the parameter for Rectangles.add you've omitted the colon after "geometricBounds" so it is probably using whatever default bounds are.

- Mark

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