Re: Help writing Extendscript to fit photos to frames in InDesign

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From: pd
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:38

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On Mar 9, 10:46 am, Steve_Gib...@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Totally new to the concept of Extendscript so it's greek to me; but, I have an InDesign template containing 40 photos as a sort of "template" we use for funeral home clients; it display pictures in an album we print. Still, I have to go page by page after relinking to new photo sets, select all for that page, fit and center.
>
> For the open document I want to fit the photos to pre-existing frames proportionally (fit proportionally), then center content--all for all 40 frames. (Note: there are other graphic frames and content, but I think a simple catch-all that manipulates all non-text would still work. Even if it manipulated text I could live with it).
>
> Anyone able to help? Thanks if so!

Once you have the fitting properties set on the container, you have to
call the fit() function on that container after re-linking an image.
I know it sounds stupid, but there it is:

  myObject.itemLink.relink(File(...));
  myObject.parent.fit(FitOptions.APPLY_FRAME_FITTING_OPTIONS);

I would have expected the fit properties of the frame to be applied
automatically, but that's not what InDesign CS4 does.

-pd

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