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• • October 27, 2010 at 3:58 pm #57515
    Robert Bourassa

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    Can someone please direct me to where the table row height setting of 'at least' and 'exact' is located in the 'style-sheet'.

    If this isn't available 'yet'. Is there a script out there that can change all the tables of a document from one state to the other?

    Regardless of any solution,

    Thanks gang for being there !

  • October 31, 2010 at 5:15 pm #57542
    Theunis De Jong

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    “Style-sheet”? It's called “autoGrow” in the JS Help.

    Use like this:

    app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().autoGrow = false; // or 'true', whatever you need.

    This one-line script will set all table rows to 'exact' height. That height, in turn, can be set with a similar line:

    app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().minimumHeight = “5mm”;

    I should note I'm typing off top/head — these lines are Not Tested.

  • November 1, 2010 at 10:23 am #57544
    Robert Bourassa

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    Thankyou sir!

    That worked very well.

    I'm very new to JavaScript,I thought that I could string 2 scripts together.

    app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().autoGrow = true;

    I thought that i could define the row height at the same time, but I guess not.

    app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().autoGrow = true.minimumHeight = “1p

    Thanks again for the code

  • November 1, 2010 at 2:39 pm #57545
    Theunis De Jong

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    As a matter of fact you can do it with a single command, which is very useful because it's also one single Undo! (You don't have to feel bad about seeing this command for the first time — it dwells into the “advanced” realm of scripting.)

    app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().rows.everyItem().properties = {autoGrow:true, minimumHeight:”1p”};

    There!

    (You might want to note that this does not change the actual row height. I tested it on some manually enlarged rows, and it happily sets the minimum height but doesn't change the actual height when it's larger than that.)

  • November 11, 2010 at 4:48 pm #57699
    Robert Bourassa

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    Brilliant! It's exactly what I needed.

    I later did a couple of tests, and in all cases my row heights were reset by the script.

    I'm at a lose as to where I could have gone wrong.

    Can you recommend a learning resource that I can check out. I find it a bit awkward to be 'mooching' java scripts.

    I figure that with enough samples in my face, I might be able to build my own.

    My immediate needs are to apply a cell style ( 0.5 pt stroke to the bottom side) to tables with manually stroked cells of 0.5 points or less. and a heavy stroke cell style to cells with strokes that are of a 0.6 point stroke or more.

    thankyou

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