app.open() details

[birnerseff]

Hi,

is there any documentation on the "options" parameter. It is described as "anything"...

[femkeblanco]

It's an OpenOptions() object you can create. 

[birnerseff]

Many thanks - unfortunately the feature I was looking for is not among the options. I hoped to find a way to set the ruler units

[pixxxelschubser]

IMHO (and unforturnately) the ruler units cannot be set for existing documents.

I have seen scripts that are supposed to make this possible, but they did not work for me. (For new documents, however, it is possible).

Existing open documents could be set (as a workaround) with a series of key combinations (preferences press [Ctrl]+[K] -> click on Units tab -> press [Tab] three times and then -> cursor up or down (several times). Maybe this will help you a little bit.

But maybe someone knows a script that works.

[birnerseff]

Hi,

thank you for the hint, but I really need script access.

I had a look at the SDK, but there setting ruler units is also described as "only while reading the file"

[femkeblanco]

Here's a Windows-based implementation of @pixxxelschubser's suggestion, which can change an existing document's units between inches, millimeters and centimeters. 

var units = "i";  // inches
// var units = "m";  // millimeters
// var units = "c";  // centimeters
var temp;
{
    interactWithDialog();
    app.executeMenuCommand("unitundoPref");
}
function interactWithDialog() {
    var contents = 
        'Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")\n' + 
        'WshShell.SendKeys "' + units + '"\n' + 
        'WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"\n';
    temp = new File("~/Desktop/temp.vbs");
    temp.open("w");
    temp.write(contents);
    temp.close();
    temp.execute();
}
temp.remove();