Small page size in Indesign CS6 js

[Yuliascript]

Hi,

I am unable to resize page document size in Indesign CS6 js smaller than 1 inch. I set the Margin to 0, but unable to set Gutter to 0. Maybe that is the reason:

masters = myDoc.masterSpreads.item('A-Master').pages;  
for (i = 0; i < masters.length; i++) {  
    masters.marginPreferences.properties = {  
top: 0,
left: 0,
right: 0,
bottom: 0
}}
myPageCount = "1";
myPageCount = eval (myPageCount);
with(myDoc.documentPreferences){
pagesPerDocument = 2;
}
myDoc.spreads[0].remove();
with(myDoc.documentPreferences){
pagesPerDocument = myPageCount;
}
while ( pg = pgs.pop() ) {
app.marginPreferences.properties = {  
     top:0, left:0, bottom:0, right:0,  
     columnGutter:0, columnCount:1 
};
}

Thank you

Yulia

[Sunil Yadav]

Hi Yuliascript,

    Try this:

app.documents[0].viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;
app.documents[0].viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;
app.documents[0].documentPreferences.pageWidth = app.documents[0].documentPreferences.pageWidth - 1;
app.documents[0].documentPreferences.pageHeight = app.documents[0].documentPreferences.pageHeight - 1;
app.documents[0].pages[0].marginPreferences.columnGutter = 0;
app.documents[0].pages[0].marginPreferences.left = 0;
app.documents[0].pages[0].marginPreferences.right = 0;
app.documents[0].pages[0].marginPreferences.top = 0;
app.documents[0].pages[0].marginPreferences.bottom = 0;

Best

Sunil

[Yuliascript]

Thank you, Sunil.

It looks now that there is more to the story, because with your code I get 0 Margin and 0 Gutter, but small sizes still fail to resize.

I have few sizes in the script set up in the same way, when one is bigger than I inch by 1 inch it works, but when when one is smaller it fails at resizing line.

If this helps, here is my code:

myWidth = 0.625;   //  art size
myHeight = .25;
with(myDoc.documentPreferences){
    pageHeight = myHeight;
    pageWidth = myWidth;
    }

Thank you

Yulia

[S Hopkins]

Perhaps by setting the margin preferences for the application before creating the document can do it for you. This works in InDesign CC 2019. (Notice that application preferences are saved and later restored.)

app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.INCHES;

var oldPrefs = app.marginPreferences.properties;

app.marginPreferences.properties = {left:0, right:0, top:0, bottom:0};

var docRef = app.documents.add();

docRef.documentPreferences.pageWidth = .65;

docRef.documentPreferences.pageHeight = .25;

app.marginPreferences.properties = oldPrefs;

[Laubender]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/S+Hopkins  wrote

Perhaps by setting the margin preferences for the application before creating the document can do it for you. …

Absolutely!

That's the key here.

Regards,
Uwe