Event listener to check border

[uniq1]

Hi,

my object is "relative spin" and.... 
Is this possible? When you move to the next page, the paragraph border should take value from the right, not the left. Can I follow this event and make automatic transactions? Thanks... 

[Peter Kahrel]

Paragraph borders (and paragraph rules) are not spine-relative, so, no, you can't get what you showed.

The only way to deal with this is not to use paragraph borders (or paragraph rules), but instead use a script to place the rules when all margin frames have been placed.

[uniq1]

Hi @Peter Kahrel Thank you very much for your reply.
"Find all text frames for the script and apply object style 1 if they are on the right of the page, apply object style 2 if they are on the left of the page." I will try to develop a code with this logic. Does anyone have a better idea?

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

But you can't apply a stroke to part of a frame in an object style (or even on a frame directly), so you'll have to place separate rules on the frames.

[uniq1]

Hi everyone,

Hi everyone;



....

var allDocPages = app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().getElements();
// Loop all pages:
for (var n = 0; n < allDocPages.length; n++)

{
// Test Left or Right Hand side of page:
//if (allDocPages[n].side == PageSideOptions.LEFT_HAND) { //Left (Odd)
if (allDocPages[n].side == PageSideOptions.RIGHT_HAND)

{ //Right (Even)
// Get all items on the current page:
var mySelection = allDocPages[n].allPageItems;
for (var i = 0; i < mySelection.length; i++)
{
if ((mySelection[i].constructor.name == "TextFrame") && (mySelection[i].appliedObjectStyle == myOs1_O))

....

I solved the problem with the script I prepared using this logic. Thanks @Peter Kahrel 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

As your TFs are Anchored - you don't have to check all TFs on all Pages - you could just iterate TFs collection of the Story.

It will be quicker / more efficient.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

And a version that doesn't require scripting knowledge:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

(those thick green and red lines are for better visibility)

Right now it needs few runs to complete - change from "...is EVEN" to "...is ODD" in the 1st Task and re-run - but it will be just one task with 2nd and 3rd Tasks run as a sub-Tasks.

And then it could be run in BatchMode on a multiple folders full of INDD files...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

And that's an example of a single, fully automatic Task:

[Peter Kahrel]

Good job. Tip for the future: when you place text frames (like your margin frames) always label them on the Layers panel. That way they easy to find so that when you go looking for frames in a script, the script uses less code and is more efficient (and quicker too, usually).

[FRIdNGE]

Sometimes, complex things just need InDesign basic features as 2 object styles and a simplistic regex! …

Screenshots previously posted not allowed.

(^/)  The Jedi

[Peter Kahrel]

Clever, mon brave. So you paste an object into the anchored frames. And how do you get the arrows to point into the correct direction?

Another thing is that the rules should be the length of the height of the boxes. How would you adjust the height of the objects you paste?