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• • March 6, 2012 at 10:27 pm #61755
    bhopfner

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    I have script that can scale an indesign document up or down. Down works great and I can go up to about 125% and then the script dies because something is fallling off the pasteboard.

    To fix this I tried to increase the slug area to enlarge the pasteboard but that still doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

    I can post code snippets if that would help.

    Thanks,

    Bob

  • March 7, 2012 at 2:27 am #61756
    Theunis De Jong

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    Is it horizontal or vertical scaling that's causing problems?

    Horizontally, the pasteboard extends to again your entire page width — which, interestingly enough, I never thought about before. So it would seem you are quite safe scaling up to 200%.

    The vertical extent is in your Preferences: Guides & Pasteboard: Minimum Vertical Offset, and has a default of 1 inch. I wonder why your “slug” trick doesn't work; if I increase it, there is still 1 inch extra above and below it. (But changing the slug back also resets the pasteboard to what it was before.)

    But you can set this pasteboard size directly from within a script.

    CS4:

    app.activeDocument.pasteboardPreferences.minimumSpaceAboveAndBelow = “15cm”;

    (see https://jongware.mit.edu/idcs4j…..rence.html)

    CS5 and 5.5: uh.

    It changed; see https://jongware.mit.edu/idcs5j…..rence.html. Apparently it's now “pasteboardMargins”, and now you can set the space all around at will.

  • March 7, 2012 at 9:55 am #61762
    bhopfner

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    That's perfect!

    with(app.pasteboardPreferences)
    {

    pasteboardMargins = “6in”;

    }

    This isn't working, how do I set this?

  • March 7, 2012 at 11:31 am #61763
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    I don't know, I haven't been scripting specifically for Cs5. But the ref says it's an array, not a single value, so you could try

    pasteboardMargins = [ “6in”, “6in”, “6in”, 6in ];

    The ref does not mention how it works; I would guess it adds these amounts all around. If you cannot get it to work, look at what is reported for the values are in your current document:

    alert (“Pasteboard is :”+app.activeDocument.pasteboardPreferences.pasteboardMargins.join(“, “)+” big”);

  • March 7, 2012 at 11:34 am #61764
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Oh wait, I don't think you would want to apply your custom values to “app”. That would set it as the new default for all of your new documents! Better only change your current active document; change your first line to

    with (app.activeDocument.pasteboardPreferences)

  • March 7, 2012 at 12:42 pm #61767
    bhopfner

    Participant

    the alert came back -0.013888888, 1 Big

    2 and 4 value arrays didn't work. The dom says minimum vertical and horizontal width, so that leads me to believe it should be 2 values like the alert gave us.

    with(app.activeDocument.pasteboardPreferences)
    {
    alert (“Pasteboard is :”+app.activeDocument.pasteboardPreferences.pasteboardMargins.join(“, “)+” big”);
    pasteboardMargins = [ “-1”, 12];

    }

    Which works!

    BUT it STILL doesn't fix the problem of “objects leaving the pasteboard” WHY? I scaling the document, slug and pasteboard BEFORE the art, and still there isn't viable space for it?

  • March 7, 2012 at 3:03 pm #61768
    bhopfner

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    Thank Jongware,

    sorry the 2 value array did finally work. I threw this up on Adobe's forums too, just in case this is a large issue with Adobe and not just my spaghetti code.

    “object leaves the pasteboard“

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