How to get Geometric Bounds of a Table

[KuddRoww]

I've searched the DOM and forum and can't find any information on getting the geometric bounds of a table. How can I achieve this? Kurtis

[Trevor: · Accepted solution]

Hi Kurtis

Get the tables width and height and the horizontal and vertical offsets of it's containing character and you should be able to calculate it.

Trevor

[Stefan Rakete]

You might want to take into account, that a table could run over multiple textframes when they are linked.

Thanks Stefan

[Laubender]

Hi Trevor,

there are other factors as well:

Very likely:

The alignment of the character* as part of a paragraph.

Is the table threaded to another text frame?

If yes, the character* is meaningless for all parts of a table not with the first row.

More exotic factors:

Rotation angle of the text frame holding the table or parts of it.

Shear angle of the text frame holding the table or parts of it.

* the character that is holding the table

Others?

Well, yes…

Here a first worst case scenario.

Watch the inset values of the selected text frame and the rendered insets that will not fit together very well:

Uwe

[Trevor:]

Yep, I knew there were complicate cases and worst case scenarios, I was going for the best case simple scenarios

Hope that helps Kurtis

[KuddRoww]

Hey Trevor, Thanks for the quick reply. How do I get the vertical offset? There's an explicit property for horizontal but not vertical. Any ideas? Cheers, Kurtis

[Trevor:]

baseline

[Stefan Rakete]

Hi,

like this you can get the insertionPoint before and after the table. The property you need is called "storyOffset":

var firstInsertionPoint = curTable.storyOffset;

var curParentStory = firstInsertionPoint.parentStory;

var lastInsertionPoint = curParentStory.insertionPoints.nextItem(firstInsertionPoint);

Thanks Stefan