relative position of an object to the margins

[cmoke73]

Hi!
 
it's actually an easy task, obviously not for me...

I have a spread with facing pages. There are top-pargins, bottom-margins, left and right-margins. But the left and right ones should be inner- and outer-margins. Whenever I want to adjust the size and position of an object to the margins, the wide becomes 0. The reason is, that:
 
myPage.marginPreferences.top;
 
is not (e.g.) 200 mm but 10 mm (from the right side of the page). So you have 10 for the geometricBounds[1] (its the relative coordinate for x1) and 10 for geometricBounds[3] (the relative coordinate for x2). But I need the absolute values from the left edge (0mm) for both the left side page and the right side page. Is that doable?

[Robert Kyle]

My recollection is that page.marginPreferences.top is the upper margin.

If you're changing the width of a object on the page, use marginPreferences.right for x1. Add the desired width for the object to x1. That's x2.To change the depth, start with marginPreferences.top.This puts your object at the upper left corner of the page. 

I'm not at a place where I can run InDesign right now, but if you still have trouble, I can look up some real javascript code later.

Bob

[brian_p_dts]

Not entirely sure what you are after, but you can access the bounds of a particular page (left or right) and subtract/add the margin from the appropriate bound maybe? Margin preferences will always just show the number that's set for the margins. But you want to get where the right margin is in the context of the whole spread? So to identify the absolute position of the right margin on a right spread, it would be pageRight.bounds[3] - pageRight.marginPreferences.right. Does that help? 

[cmoke73 · Accepted solution]

Thanx Bob, thankx Brian.

My problem was the absolute Position on both sides of a double sided document.

But I found the solution, it's the red line:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

var theSelection = myDoc.selection;
var numSelection = theSelection.length;

app.doScript(auswahlCheck, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Process Table");

function auswahlCheck(){

objArray = [];

for (i=0; i<numSelection; i++){objArray.push(theSelection[i]);}

objArray.sort(function (a, b) {return Number(a.geometricBounds[0]) - Number(b.geometricBounds[0]);});

for (i=0; i<numSelection; i++) {

var myObj = objArray[i];
var myPage = theSelection[i].parentPage;

var hoehe = myObj.geometricBounds[2]-myObj.geometricBounds[0];
var breite = myObj.geometricBounds[3]-myObj.geometricBounds[1];

if (i==0) {var y1 = myPage.bounds[0]+myPage.marginPreferences.top;}

else if (i>0) {
var vorherigesObj = objArray[i-1];
var y1 = vorherigesObj.geometricBounds[2]+1.764 ;
}

var x1 = myPage.bounds[1]+myPage.marginPreferences.left;
var y2 = y1+ hoehe;

if (i==2) {var y2 = myPage.bounds[2]-myPage.marginPreferences.bottom}

var x2 = myPage.bounds[3]-myPage.marginPreferences.right;

myObj.geometricBounds= [y1,x1,y2,x2];

}

}