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Use a move.

Something like this:

myGBs = myInline.geometricBounds;
myCenterY = (myGBs[2] + myGBs[0])/2;
myBaseline = myInline.parent.baseline;
myInline.move(undefined, [0, myBaseline - myCenterY);

Dave

Dave

I have a related problem. I'm not familiar with scripts but need one that would search a story and, e.g., replace the text "Pencil.tif" with a graphic file named Pencil.tif in a given folder.

Can you help with this?

Thanks,

Tom

      need one that would search a story and, e.g., replace the text "Pencil.tif"
      with a graphic file named Pencil.tif from a given folder.




I've found in my archive a script written by Peter Kahrel (I modified it a little). It finds text between two @ characters – e.g. @Pencil.tif@ – and replaces it with image that has the same name and is in the root folder of C drive.

// reset the Find/Change dialog
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
// formulate a grep search string
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '@.+?@';
// find all occurrence, last one first
f = app.activeDocument.findGrep (true);
for (i = 0; i < f.length; i++)
   {
   // construct file name
   name = f[i].contents.replace (/@/g, '');
   // place the pdf
   f[i].insertionPoints[0].place (File ('/c/' + name));
   }
// delete all @??@ codes
app.activeDocument.changeGrep()

Kasyan

Forgot to mention I'm working in original CS version. Grep probably won't work?

Tom

      Grep probably won't work?




Certainly it won't – Grep is supported since CS3.

Time to upgrade?

You can get the same result in CS2, but it's a lot more convoluted.

The basic idea is to build an array of the exact file name strings. To 
do this you use js RegEx to search the contents of every story. The 
results of this match() will give you the strings you need. You then 
iterate through your array and do a search() on your doc to do the 
replacements.

I think Peter's book on scripting InDesign has examples of this method.

-- 
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

The good old days, eh, Harbs? Here's a CS2 version. It skips footnotes (because you can't do this kind of thing in footnotes in CS2) and tables.

Peter



#target indesign

picture_dir = '/d/' 
app.findPreferences = app.changePreferences = null; 
myStories = app.activeDocument.stories; 
for (i = 0; i < myStories.length; i++) 
   { 
   picnames = myStories[i].contents.match (/@.+?@/g); 
   if (picnames != null) 
      { 
      for (j = 0; j < picnames.length; j++) 
         { 
         found = app.activeDocument.search (picnames[j],false,false); 
         for (k = found.length-1; k > -1; k--) 
            { 
            try 
               { 
               filename = found[k].contents.replace (/@/g, ""); 
               found[k].insertionPoints[-1].place (File (picture_dir + filename)); 
               found[k].remove(); 
               } 
            catch(_){} 
            } 
         } 
      } 
   }

Peter Kahrel wrote:
> The good old days, eh, Harbs?

Yeah. ;) My problem is, that I still need to support CS2, so I'm still 
stuck using these backwards methods on occasion. :(

-- 
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

Took a little messing around with my current situation (its not always centered - sometimes a little off) but the move worked perfectly!

Thank you Dave