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• • April 24, 2020 at 3:11 pm #1240292
    William Greenwood

    Member

    Hi all,

    I’m after a script to be built or pointers to an existing or help to build one please.

    Is there way to scale a range of selected graphic frames, so they are the same height or same width and the other X/Y scale in proportion. Keeping the graphic scaled in the frame.

    I have a bunch of logos on a page (pages of the things) that are all placed at different sizes and scales. I am after trying to make them either the same height or same width.

    Example say for heights.
    Frame One is 25mm high
    Frame Two is 45mm high
    Frame Three is 25.135354mm high
    Frame Four is 9mm high

    All frames need to be 20mm high with the width scaled in proportion.

    I may need a case where all widths would be uniform, with different heights in proportion.

    So I guess it’ll need some dialogue pop-up to allow me to put in a height or width.

    I’m more than happy to write this myself but I’ll need some major hand-holding.
    Also I’m happy to buy someone a beer (coffee-tea-larger-orange) or three if they fancy writing this for me

    Cheers Bill

  • April 24, 2020 at 3:22 pm #1240318
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Not a script, but will this help?
    https://indesignsecrets.com/set-the-size-of-lots-of-frames-at-the-same-time.php

  • April 24, 2020 at 4:53 pm #1240338
    William Greenwood

    Member

    Hi David! Thanks for the reply.

    Unfortunately because the graphic frames are pre-populated, the images do not scale with the frames. I think this is going to need a script. I can’t use the auto fit feature as some graphics may themselves already be scaled or positioned in the frames.

    Bill

  • April 24, 2020 at 6:06 pm #1240348
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Hm. Good point. Maybe this? https://indesignsecrets.com/topic/resize-all-graphic-frames-at-once/#post-77307

  • April 25, 2020 at 3:48 am #1240398
    William Greenwood

    Member

    Thanks David, but this doesn’t do a job.

    I will though plod on and if I make something then I will post it here as i really think this will be a handy tool.

    bill

  • April 26, 2020 at 9:02 pm #1240428
    Brian Pifer

    Participant

    Here’s the dialog built with the handy scriptUI builder: https://scriptui.joonas.me/

    Should help you get started.

    // DIALOG
    // ======
    var dialog = new Window(“dialog”);
    dialog.text = “TableStyler”;
    dialog.orientation = “column”;
    dialog.alignChildren = [“left”,”top”];
    dialog.spacing = 10;
    dialog.margins = 16;

    // GROUP1
    // ======
    var group1 = dialog.add(“group”, undefined, {name: “group1”});
    group1.orientation = “column”;
    group1.alignChildren = [“left”,”center”];
    group1.spacing = 10;
    group1.margins = 0;

    var radiobutton1 = group1.add(“radiobutton”, undefined, undefined, {name: “radiobutton1”});
    radiobutton1.text = “Height”;

    var radiobutton2 = group1.add(“radiobutton”, undefined, undefined, {name: “radiobutton2”});
    radiobutton2.text = “Width”;

    // GROUP2
    // ======
    var group2 = dialog.add(“group”, undefined, {name: “group2”});
    group2.orientation = “row”;
    group2.alignChildren = [“left”,”center”];
    group2.spacing = 10;
    group2.margins = 0;

    var edittext1 = group2.add(‘edittext {properties: {name: “edittext1”}}’);
    edittext1.text = “Enter the width or height to set”;

    // GROUP3
    // ======
    var group3 = dialog.add(“group”, undefined, {name: “group3”});
    group3.orientation = “row”;
    group3.alignChildren = [“left”,”center”];
    group3.spacing = 10;
    group3.margins = 0;

    var button1 = group3.add(“button”, undefined, undefined, {name: “button1”});
    button1.text = “OK”;

    var button2 = group3.add(“button”, undefined, undefined, {name: “button2”});
    button2.text = “Cancel”;

    dialog.show();

  • April 27, 2020 at 10:08 am #1240448
    William Greenwood

    Member

    Brian Pifer – this is lovely :)

    I will give this a go. Thank you so much.

  • April 27, 2020 at 10:50 am #1240458
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That looks neat! But Brian, just to confirm: that’s only the UI, right? The dialog box? It doesn’t actually change anything in the document?

  • April 27, 2020 at 3:20 pm #1240708
    Brian Pifer

    Participant

    Correct, just something to started on the UI. From there, it would be a matter of resizing the rectangles and their containing images.

    app.selection returns an array of all the selected objects on a page. If you select a frame with your black arrow tool, that’s a rectangle object. With one object selected:

    var rect = app.selection[0];
    var containingImage = rect.graphics[0];

    You can look at the rect.geometricBounds property, as well as rect.resize() and rect.fit() methods. Lots of different ways to skin the cat based on your ultimate needs and how your doc is set up.

    For some guidance on the Rectangle object, https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Rectangle.html

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