How to change the vertical justification in Applescript

[defaultzyz99fv4l764]

This command does not seem to work:

set vertical justification of text frame preferences to bottom align

When I get the properties of the text frame, it does not include vertical justification.

[rob day]

Hi @defaultzyz99fv4l764 , I think you need to target a text frame, so this would set the vertical justification of a selected text frame:

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"
	set s to selection
	if class of item 1 of s is text frame then
		set vertical justification of text frame preferences of selection to bottom align
	end if
end tell

[rob day]

Or, if you are constructing text frames, something like this:

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"
	set measurement unit of script preferences to inches
	tell page 1 of active document
		set tf to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{1, 1, 5, 5}, contents:"Hello", text frame preferences:{vertical justification:bottom align}}
	end tell
end tell

[defaultzyz99fv4l764]

'sorry I didn't include the complete script. Here it is. Is this a valid script that should work?

tell application "Adobe InDesign 2022"

tell active document

tell every text frame of layer "Test layer"

set vertical justification of text frame preferences to bottom align

end tell

end tell

end tell

[rob day · Accepted solution]

It should work, here are the get replies with 3 text frames in a layer named "Test Layer":

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Does a repeat loop work? Something like this:

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"
	tell active document
		set tf to every text frame of layer "Test layer"
		repeat with x in tf
			set vertical justification of text frame preferences of x to bottom align
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell