JS TextColumnCount not working.

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5 total messages Started by Malcolm Wooden Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:48

#512

Author: Malcolm Wooden
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:48

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I have a simple JS to create a new 6 column document, however I cannot get 'TextColumnCount' to work. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong here?
Thanks

var myDocument = app.documents.add();
with(myDocument.documentPreferences){
	pageHeight = "297mm";
	pageWidth = "210mm";
	pageOrientation = PageOrientation.portrait;
	facingPages = false;
}
with(myDocument.textDefaults){
	kerningMethod = "Metrics";
	appliedFont = "Arial";
}
with(myDocument.pages.item(0)){
	with(marginPreferences){
		columnCount = 6;
		columnGutter = "4.233mm";
		bottom = "12.7mm";
		left = "12.7mm";
		right = "12.7mm";
		top = "12.7mm";
	}
	with(textFrames.add()){
		geometricBounds = ["12.7mm", "12.7mm", "284.3mm", "197.3mm"];
		contents = "This is some text";
		with(TextFramePreference){
			TextColumnCount = 6;
		}
	}
}

Re: JS TextColumnCount not working.

#513

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:54

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with(textFramePreferences){
textColumnCount = 6;

Re: JS TextColumnCount not working.

#514

Author: Malcolm Wooden
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:11

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Kasyan

I don't think that's correct, it doesn't run. The debugger comes back with "textFramePreferences undefined".

Re: JS TextColumnCount not working.

#515

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:53

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Malcolm,

I changed these two lines and it works for me. I'm posting the whole script.

Kasyan



var myDocument = app.documents.add();
with(myDocument.documentPreferences){
   pageHeight = "297mm";
   pageWidth = "210mm";
   pageOrientation = PageOrientation.portrait;
   facingPages = false;
}
with(myDocument.textDefaults){
   kerningMethod = "Metrics";
   appliedFont = "Arial";
}
with(myDocument.pages.item(0)){
   with(marginPreferences){
      columnCount = 6;
      columnGutter = "4.233mm";
      bottom = "12.7mm";
      left = "12.7mm";
      right = "12.7mm";
      top = "12.7mm";
   }
   with(textFrames.add()){
      geometricBounds = ["12.7mm", "12.7mm", "284.3mm", "197.3mm"];
      contents = "This is some text";
      with(textFramePreferences){
         textColumnCount = 6;
      }
   }
}

Re: JS TextColumnCount not working.

#516

Author: Malcolm Wooden
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:09

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Kasyan

Thanks - yes that works, not sure why mine didn't though, perhaps there is something in the formatting.

thanks again.

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