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Article #15345Re: AS - drawing a box on the active page?
From: Casey D'Andrea
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:55
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:55
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Here is what I ended up doing. Keep in mind this would work with a document with no more than 2 pages in a spread. This does not use facing pages as facing pages would use the opposite coordinates for placing the frames since odd pages start on the right side.
Given the example below, could I not identify whether the document contains facing pages or standard pages? If so, where would I dump that to minimize the code. Could I insert another nested if statement. See bold section of code below
if item 2 of view preferences = false then
set imageLeft to imageLeft - imageLeft - 110
else
set imageLeft to imageLeft + 20
end if
I defined another variable, endDigit, as the last character of cPageNum. This way, if there are more than 9 pages, it will return the value I need. I then inserted an quick if statement that included some boolean statements. The result is that if the user is on a left (odd) page the frame is drawn just outside the top left, or if they're on an right (even) page the frame is drawn just outside the top right.
set cPageNum to active page of layout window 1 of myDocument
set cPageNum to name of cPageNum
tell page cPageNum of myDocument
set endDigit to last character of cPageNum
if (endDigit = "1") or (endDigit = "3") or (endDigit = "5") or (endDigit = "7") or (endDigit = "9") then
set imageTop to item (3) of bounds
set imageLeft to item (4) of bounds
set imageTop to 0
if item (2) of bounds = false then
set imageLeft to imageLeft - imageLeft - 110
else
set imageLeft to imageLeft + 20
end if
else
set imageTop to item (3) of bounds
set imageLeft to item (4) of bounds
set imageTop to 0
if item (2) of bounds = false then
set imageLeft to imageLeft + 20
else
set imageLeft to imageLeft - imageLeft - 110
end if
end if
end tell
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