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Article #18022Picture in Text box
From: Kim Kohen
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 00:25
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 00:25
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I swear this has worked before so it's possible it broke with either an OS or ID update. The following snippet is supposed to place a graphic into an existing text frame or, if the graphic isn't present, place the text that describes it.
tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
set mydoc to active document
tell mydoc
tell page 1
if exists text frame theadnumber then
set myFrame to (text frame theadnumber)
try
place myad on myFrame
tell myFrame
fit graphic given content to frame --proportionally
end tell
end try
else
try
set myFrame to make text frame at page 1 with properties {geometric bounds:{theycoord, thewidth2, theycoord + theheight, thewidth2 + theadwidth}, label:theadnumber}
on error errmess
beep
display dialog "Couldn't create the ad frame due to error: " & errmess
end try
try
place myad on myFrame
tell myFrame
fit graphic given content to frame
end tell
on error
set contents of myFrame to thetext
end try
end if
end tell
end tell -- mydoc
end tell -- ID
the frames are created correctly but it errors out trying to place the graphic (which exists). Are there any issues placing graphics onto text frames (or anything else I'm missing)?
I'm getting a tad frustrated because it was working fine previously
cheers
kim
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