Wouldn't you (or your developer) rather like to learn scripting... since you found your way here 🙂 ?
Just looping through the pages of an open document, and gathering the coordinates of all graphics is not that hard to do, but you might want to build more functionality into it, like looping through all documents in a folder, or writing the results to a file (instead of copying it from the output window of ExtendScript Toolkit), or other things...
I'll give you a pice of code that you might be able to start with, that puts together a string, line by line, with the page number and the values of the top left coordinates of the graphics (TAB separated, just change "\t" to to ";" if you want it as a csv):
getGraphicsCoordinates();
// Returns a semicolon separated string of page names and graphics coordinates
function getGraphicsCoordinates(){
var ln = '';
// loop through all pages in the current document
var pgLength = app.activeDocument.pages.count();
for (var i = 0; i < pgLength; i++){
var pg = app.activeDocument.pages;
pagePart = pg.name + '\t'; // Get the page name (or number) to the string.
// Loop through all graphics in the current page
var gr = pg.allGraphics;
for (var j = 0; j < gr.length; j++){
var geo = gr[0].geometricBounds;
ln += pagePart;
ln += geo[0].toString() + '\t'; // The top coordinate is stored in geometricBounds 0
ln += geo[1].toString() + '\n'; // The left coordinate is stored in geometricBounds 0
}
}
return ln;
}
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