Updating text column fixed width

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From: Robert_Kyle
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:41

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I'm working on a script to place an item in the last column of a text frame. This item needs to be the width of that column, so I'm trying to use the "text column fixed width" of the text frame preferences.

The problem is the fixed width does not seem to automatically update if the column count has been modified by a script. If the user changes the column count by opening the Text Frame Options dialog, the value of the fixed width updates dynamically.

I suppose the workaround would be to do the math: Width of the text frame minus the total width of the gutters divided by the number of columns. I'm just wondering if anyone else knows of a way to force the text frame preferences to update.

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