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Alex--

The trouble is that we can't reliably get individual values from GeometricBounds until it's cast into a variable. So:



myBounds = myFrame.GeometricBounds 
myY1 = myBounds(0)  
myX1 = myBounds(1)  
Rem ... and so on 




Next, get in the habit of applying a small moveBy move immediately after you create an page item which might have a stroke weight greater than 0 (rectangles, ovals, polygons, and lines qualify). Why? It's because InDesign considers the left-most page in a spread that touches the page item to be the parent of that page item.

Imagine that you have a two page spread, and your ruler origin is set to page origin. You then tell the right-hand page to create a rectangle. When you set the geometric bounds of the rectangle, it'll move to the left-hand page of the spread, because its stroke touched that page, and all measurements are based on the upper-left corner of that page.

So, whenever I'm creating page items that might appear on a spread, I try to remember to "bump" then onto the page.



Set myRectangle = myPage.Rectangles.Add 
myRectangle.Move , Array(1, 1) 
Rem myRectangle.GeometricBounds = ...and so on 




This clears up any possible page ownership confusion.

(Good one, Max, by the way! Thanks for your contributions to the forum.)

Thanks,

Ole