Creating a page and a table

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From: Gerhard Faehling
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 07:36

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Hi,

I'm a newbie in scripting InDesign - so sorry for this (hopefully) easy 
question.

I have an existing document. Now I want to create a new page with a 
table on it.

That's my way so far:

Dim indDoc As InDesign.Document
Dim indPage As InDesign.Page
Dim indTxtFrame As InDesign.TextFrame

Dim myInDesign As InDesign.Application
Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.2.0")
myInDesign.Documents.Open ("c:\work\test.indd")
    
Set indDoc = myInDesign.Documents("test.indd")

' New page    
Set indPage = indDoc.Pages.Add

' New TextFrame
Set indTxtFrame = indPage.TextFrames.Add

Now I can add an table to the TextFrame - no problem. 

But I have to position and enlarge the TextFrame. So what is the right 
way for that? I think I have to set the PathPoints - correct? But how do 
I set the exact coordinates?

Thanks for any answer

   Gerhard

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