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Using transform() would be easier. Try this:
//the amount to scale the frame
var s = 1.3
var d = app.activeDocument;
//change as object style name to to yours
var os = d.objectStyles.itemByName("YourStyle")
var tf = d.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
var dl = makeLayer(d, "TextCopy");
var tm = app.transformationMatrices.add({horizontalScaleFactor:s, verticalScaleFactor:s})
var df;
for (var i = 0; i < tf.length; i++){
df = tf[i].duplicate();
df.transform(CoordinateSpaces.innerCoor
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Not sure I’m following, think I need to see an example. In the altered script you are adding new text frames without indicating what page they should be on. So I get this with text frames on the 2-3 spread—all the new frames get added to page 1:
duplicate() clones the textFrame on top of the original using the same bounds, so the bounds of the cloned frames could be changed—this swaps their width and height:
var d = app.activeDocument;
//change as object style name to to yours
var os = d.objectStyles.itemByName("YourStyle")
var tf = d.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
var dl = makeLayer(d, "TextCopy");
var df, b;
for (var i = 0; i < tf.length; i++){
df = tf[i].duplicate();
b = df.geometricBounds;
//swaps the width and height
df.geometricBounds = [b[0], b[1], b[0]+(b[3]-b[1]), b[1]+(b[2]-b[0])]
df.itemLayer = dl
df.appliedObjectStyle = os
};
/**
* Makes a new named Layer
* @ param the document to add the layer
* @ param layer name
* @ return the new layer
*/
function makeLayer(d, n){
if (d.layers.itemByName(n).isValid) {
return d.layers.itemByName(n);
} else {
return d.layers.add({name:n});
}
}
Yeah, that absolutely makes sense now. I was only testing it on a single-page document. The reason that Olivier can't use .duplicate() here is that Olivier wants to change a property of a frame that our installs of InDesign don't have. The one-pager I'm using is a Trad Chinese template that DIane Burns first distributed many years ago; currently she has it up at http://www.transpacificdigital.com/downloads/.
Here's what it looks like in action:
So, we can't use .duplicate, that will just dupe the frame with the vertical property unchanged. In my attempt I tried using .contents() but now I see that it only captures the raw text of the frame. I suppose that looping through app.activeDocument.textFrames.texts would work better, I'll give that a shot.
(If Olivier is using a CJK install of InDesign, then we could write a script that would address only storyOrientation. That's the only reason that I'm chasing this idea of creating new text frames with the contents of the old frames.)
So the procedure would be : select a layer / empty every frame on it / switch content from txt to image /switch back from img to txt/ (and bonus points for enlarge frames by 30%
So you want the duplicate text frame to be empty? The script could convert the duplicate to a graphic frame and back to a text frame, which would remove its contents. To test the script copy the code into a plain text editor (e.g. Notepad), save with a .jsx extension and save into your scripts folder:
var d = app.activeDocument;
//change as object style name to to yours
var os = d.objectStyles.itemByName("YourStyle")
var tf = d.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
var dl = makeLayer(d, "TextCopy");
var df, b;
for (var i = 0; i < tf.length; i++){
df = tf[i].duplicate();
b = df.geometricBounds;
//swaps the width and height
//df.geometricBounds = [b[0], b[1], b[0]+(b[3]-b[1]), b[1]+(b[2]-b[0])]
//increases the frame width by 30%
df.geometricBounds = [b[0], b[1], b[2], b[1]+((b[3]-b[1])*1.3)];
df.itemLayer = dl;
df.appliedObjectStyle = os;
df.contents = ""
df.contentType = ContentType.GRAPHIC_TYPE;
df.contentType = ContentType.TEXT_TYPE;
};
/**
* Makes a new named Layer
* @ param the document to add the layer
* @ param layer name
* @ return the new layer
*/
function makeLayer(d, n){
if (d.layers.itemByName(n).isValid) {
return d.layers.itemByName(n);
} else {
return d.layers.add({name:n});
}
}
You can duplicate WHOLE layer with one click:
Then - it would be just a case of iterating through the collection of TextFrames, checking if they are on the new layer - increasing size and performing change of contentType...
I can't make it work, I am on mac and don't have notepad. So I tried to use text edit, but I have this error message when I try to use it. I really have no knowledge of programming, sorry.
As Joel suggests you need to format the text as Plain Text—you can also make Plain text the default in Text Edit’s preferences:
Also, edit the object style name to yours on line 2, and make sure the extension is .jsx when you save (not .jsx.txt)
thank you very much for your time, it works ! I have one small problem, even though my reference point is the middle one, the script enlarges the frames to the right.
I managed to understand the enlargment ratio *1.3, if I want higher I could got to *2 or more, but didn't get how to adjust the reference point in the code.
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Using transform() would be easier. Try this:
By @rob day
Why?
It's just a case of a different params for:
tf[i].geometricBounds = [b[0], b[1], b[2], b[1]+((b[3]-b[1])*1.3)];
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