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Fit Options - frame to content - Extendscript

Community Beginner ,
Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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I'm pretty familiar with using the FitOptions enums to, say, resize an image proportionally within its frame or snug a one-paragraph textFrame to its content by using FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT.

 

What I'm not sure how to do is: Given a textFrame with multiple paragraphs, how do I replicate the application behaviour of a user double clicking the bottom handle of that textFrame in ExtendScript? I guess any handle will do. It'd be all useful info.

 

Can it be done with inbuilt DOM methods or do I have to code it explicitly?

 

I understand FitOptions.FIT_FRAME_TO_CONTENT will snug a frame to the least possible X and Y values, given its content. But I only want to fit the frame to the content using its least possible Y values.

 

As an example, say, I've created a textFrame with geometricBounds of [2,2,7,4] in inches. If the parentStory.contents of that frame puts the bottom of the frame at four inches deep, how should I pull it up?

 

Thanks!

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Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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There is a resize method for textFrames. Sorry folks, I should have read it fully before posting.

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Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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Hi, I'm interested how you did it. I've never done it before and this is what I came up with:

app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
var tf = app.activeDocument.selection[0];
var bounds = tf.geometricBounds;
var lastLine = tf.texts[0].lines.lastItem();
bounds[2] = lastLine.baseline;
tf.geometricBounds = bounds;

Is there a simpler way, eg. by using FIT_FRAME_TO_CONTENT?

- Mark

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Aug 15, 2021 Aug 15, 2021

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This is good, but not quite the same as double-clicking the bottom of the frame, because double-clicking will also increase the height of the frame if there is overset text in it, and your code won't.

So if that's a concern, you'd just have to first increase the height of the frame and then run your function.

But the essentials are all there in your code. I don't think there's a better way of doing it.

(I don't think the code will work for rotated frames, though... so that would be another complication to deal with if necessary.)

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Aug 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021

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Hi Toques,

is this text frame part of a story with several text frames threaded?

 

If not you could do it with auto height from the text frame options:

var tf = app.selection[0];

var props = 
{
	autoSizingReferencePoint : AutoSizingReferenceEnum.TOP_CENTER_POINT ,
	autoSizingType : AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_ONLY ,
	useNoLineBreaksForAutoSizing : false ,
	verticalJustification : VerticalJustification.TOP_ALIGN	
};

tf.textFramePreferences.properties = props;

 

InDesign CS6 to InDesign 2021.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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