Fit anchored frames to content

[Guest]

Hi All,

I am adding some text into an anchored textframe and placed in the same location using Indesign javascript.

But I am unable to fit the anchored text frame to content.

Below I have pasted the source code.

try
   {
   for (i = 0; i < myFound.length; i++)
      {
var myInsertionPoint = myFound.insertionPoints[-1];

var myAnchoredFrame = myInsertionPoint.textFrames.add();
myAnchoredFrame.contents = "This is an anchored frame.";
myAnchoredFrame.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);

with(myAnchoredFrame.anchoredObjectSettings)
{
  anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.anchored;
  anchorPoint = AnchorPoint.topLeftAnchor;
  horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.anchorLocation;
  horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.leftAlign;
  anchorXoffset = 72;
  verticalReferencePoint = VerticallyRelativeTo.lineBaseline;
  anchorYoffset = 24;
  anchorSpaceAbove = 24;
}

}
   }
catch (e) {alert (e.message)}

Please help me out.

Thanks in advance,

Christy

[-hans-]

... cause your in overset from the start. try to give some bounds, so that at least the first words fit

var myInsertionPoint = app.activeDocument.stories[0].insertionPoints[-1];

var myAnchoredFrame = myInsertionPoint.textFrames.add(undefined, undefined, undefined,{geometricBounds: [0,0,50,50]});

myAnchoredFrame.contents = "This is an anchored frame.";

myAnchoredFrame.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);

Edit: You'll still have to check for overflows after fitting and in case expand bounds and fit again. It's bit of buggy also in the GUI.

Hope this'll help

Hans-Gerd Claßen

[Guest]

Hi Hans,

If I add the bounds its throwing some error like

"Invalid Object for this request".

Here the portion of code I have updated:

var myFound = myDoc.findGrep (true);

try

   {

   for (i = 0; i < myFound.length; i++)

      {

var myInsertionPoint = myFound.insertionPoints[-1];

var myAnchoredFrame = myInsertionPoint.textFrames.add(undefined, undefined, undefined,{geometricBounds: [0,0,50,50]});

Please advice.

Thanks,

Christy

[-hans-]

Hi,

your changing the story by adding a textFrame, so your reference myFound is actually not valid after the first loop.

So, loop backwards when changing / deleting something: while(i--) ... or for (i < myFound.length, i >= 0; i--)

Another reason could be that a reference itsself is in overset when accessed.

Hope this'll help

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Dear Hans,

Thanks for your response and it is working fine.

Thanks again,

Christy