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Hi Lorna,

I assume that one box is selected in the current document. But there is not enough information in your post: which box should be transformed – graphic/text frame, only selected frame or all on the page /spread/ in document etc.

Kasyan



if (app.selection.length > 0) {
   var mySelection = app.selection[0];
}
else {
   alert("Select a box.");
   exit();
}
var myBounds= mySelection.geometricBounds;
var myWidth = myBounds[3] - myBounds[1];
var myHeght = myBounds[2] - myBounds[0];
var myHorScaleFactor = (myWidth + 0.125)/myWidth;
var myVerScaleFactor = (myHeght + 0.125)/myHeght;
var myTransformationMatrix = app.transformationMatrices.add({horizontalScaleFactor:myHorScaleFactor, verticalScaleFactor:myVerScaleFactor});
mySelection.transform(CoordinateSpaces.PASTEBOARD_COORDINATES, AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR, myTransformationMatrix);

Warning: I'm an amateur! But this seems to work for me. Select the box you want to expand, then run the script.



if (app.documents.length > 0){ 
   var myDocument = app.activeDocument; 
   var myViewPreferences = myDocument.viewPreferences; 
   var myOldXUnits = 
myViewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits; 
   var myOldYUnits = myViewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits; 
   var myOldRulerOrigin = myViewPreferences.rulerOrigin; 
   myDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits 
= MeasurementUnits.points; 
   myDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits 
= MeasurementUnits.points;

   if (app.selection.length == 1){ 
      var myBox = app.selection[0]; 
      if (myBox.constructor.name == 
"TextFrame" || myBox.constructor.name == "Rectangle"){ 
         myExpand(myBox); 
         } 
      else 
         alert("You 
haven't selected a box as required. Select a box and try again."); 
         }    
      app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits 
= myOldXUnits; 
      app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits 
= myOldYUnits; 
      app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin 
= myOldRulerOrigin; 
   }

function myExpand(myBox) { 
   var myBounds = myBox.geometricBounds; 
   myBox.geometricBounds = [myBounds[0] - 4.5, 
myBounds[1] - 4.5, myBounds[2] + 4.5, myBounds[3]+4.5]; 
   } //end function myExpand

Ooops! -- Didn't see that your question had already been answered!

OH so sorry! I didn't realize you would need this info (duh!). I would like to expand selected graphic boxes only. We place files in indesign to manually step files for gang runs on our DI and I end up expanding these boxes manually, that's a lot of '+.125' input!
Thanks for your quick responses, you guys are terrific!

This version expects you to manually select a bunch of graphic boxes and then run the script:



if (app.documents.length > 0){ 
  var myDocument = app.activeDocument; 
  var myViewPreferences = myDocument.viewPreferences; 
  var myOldXUnits = myViewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits; 
  var myOldYUnits = myViewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits; 
  var myOldRulerOrigin = myViewPreferences.rulerOrigin; 
  myDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points; 
  myDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;

   if (app.selection.length != 0){ 
      myList = app.selection; 
      for (var i = 0; i < myList.length; i++){ 
         var myBox = app.selection[i]; 
         if (myBox.constructor.name == "TextFrame" || myBox.constructor.name == "Rectangle"){ 
         myExpand(myBox); 
         } 
      else 
         alert("The script stopped running because a non-recrangle was selected."); 
        } 
    } 
   app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = myOldXUnits; 
   app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = myOldYUnits; 
   app.activeDocument.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = myOldRulerOrigin; 
   }

function myExpand(myBox) { 
  var myBounds = myBox.geometricBounds; 
  myBox.geometricBounds = [myBounds[0] - 4.5, myBounds[1] - 4.5, myBounds[2] + 4.5, myBounds[3] + 4.5]; 
  } //end function myExpand