Resize a Rectangle horizontaly ONLY or verticaly ONLY by script

[platm72]

Good morning, 

I'm wondering, how to resize an rectangle in only one direction by script, to acheive identical result, as mouse double clikin on the middle handle ?

the fit() method doesn't allow to do such operation, I think ?

thanks in advance for suggestions or solution 🙂

many regards a.

[Sunil Yadav]

Hi platm72,

Auto sizing options is available for text frames not for rectangles like:

var myTextFrame = app.activeDocument.pages[0].textFrames[0];
/// These are four types ======
myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.OFF;
myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_AND_WIDTH;
myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_AND_WIDTH_PROPORTIONALLY;
myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_ONLY;
myTextFrame.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.WIDTH_ONLY;
/// ==========================

Unforutnately there's no such thing for rectangles

Here are some list how you can fit rectangle frames : 

var myRectangle = app.activeDocument.pages[0].rectangles[0];
//// These are types how you can fit you rectangle frames ======
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.APPLY_FRAME_FITTING_OPTIONS);
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.CENTER_CONTENT);
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.CONTENT_AWARE_FIT);
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.CONTENT_TO_FRAME);
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.FILL_PROPORTIONALLY);
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);
myRectangle.fit(FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY);
/// ==========================================================

You can have more information here on rectangles : Rectangle && Rectangles

Best

Sunil

[Sunil Yadav]

FitOptions.CONTENT_AWARE_FIT

===This is not supported===

Best

Sunil

[BarlaeDC]

Hi,

A method you can use is Resize - https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Rectangle.html#d1e217105

Which is a little complicated when you first look at it.

undefined resize (in:Varies BoundingBoxLimits CoordinateSpaces BoundsKind:BoundingBoxLimits OrderedarraycontainingcoordinateSpace:CoordinateSpaces, from:Array of Varies AnchorPoint AnchorPoints 2 Reals BoundingBoxLimitss CoordinateSpacess Arrays of 2 Reals LongIntegers, by:ResizeMethods, values:Array of Varies Reals ResizeConstraintss CoordinateSpacess, [resizeIndividually:Boolean=Boolean], [consideringRulerUnits:Boolean=Boolean])

but with a little trial and error you should be able to work out what works for you. I would try something like

myRectangle.resize (BoundingBoxLimits.GEOMETRIC_PATH_BOUNDS,

AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR,

ResizeMethods.ADDING_CURRENT_DIMENSIONS_TO, [100, 100], false, false);

Note: I am not in a position to test this so it may not run out of the box, and it will resize your rectangle in both directions, to alter that just change the value of the 100.

Hope this helps.

Malcolm

[platm72]

Thank you Malcolm for pointing me on RESIZE method .... it is obvious, but I never used it unfortunately 🙂

[platm72]

In my first post I miss describing of some conditions I plan to use the script. My main target is to adjust the height of the picture frame to the content, not changing the width. The picture box has its own object style and the graphic fills the box starting from left bottom corner. I've prepared beneatch function

[platm72]

function fitTheBox () { var ag = app.activeDocument.allGraphics, i = ag.length; while ( i-- ) { if ( ag[i].parent.constructor.name == 'Rectangle' && ag[i].parent.locked == false /* maybe some other conditions */ ) { var g, r, hg, wg, hr, wr; g = ag[i].geometricBounds, r = ag[i].parent.geometricBounds; hg = g[2]-g[0], wg = g[3]-g[1], hr = r[2]-r[0], wr = r[3]-r[1]; if ( hg > hr ) { ag[i].parent.geometricBounds = [ g[0], r[1], r[2], r[3] ]; } else { ag[i].fit( FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY ); g = ag[i].geometricBounds; ag[i].parent.geometricBounds = [ g[0], r[1], r[2], r[3] ]; } } } }

[platm72]

this function do the job :-), but I'll experiment with resize()