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• • March 9, 2020 at 12:05 pm #1231795
    Jose Antonio Pulgarin Alvarez

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    Hi mates!
    I`m automating the creation of the covers of a book collection. They have a very basic design: a spread with five pages (left flap, back cover, spine, front cover and right flap), a black background, white texts, author, title, volume number, isbn and codebar, little fragment of text, and flaps with previous and next volumes in collection.
    Until now, the script is working. Maybe not refined, hadnsome code, but it works.
    But… I’m unable to stablish the spine (page #2) width. The only code that do something is this:

    with (app.activeDocument.documentPreferences) {
    pageWidth = ’60mm’;
    }

    but it only works with normal, facing pages document. And for all pages in doc.
    I have tried more things with no results at all. I’m very clumsy with Object model viewer.

    Some advice, mates?
    Thanks in advance, and I hope you understand my english.

  • March 10, 2020 at 11:36 am #12343208
    Jose Antonio Pulgarin Alvarez

    Member

    Well, I have found the solution in http://www.indesignjs.de object model:

    doc.spreads[0].pages[2].adjustLayout({width:’60mm’ , rightMargin:’0′ , leftMargin: ‘0’});

    being doc the active document. By the way, I adjust the left and right margins.

  • April 1, 2020 at 9:25 pm #1236374
    Tobias Wantzen

    Participant

    Jose, the usage of pages[n].adjustLayout() is one method. The other one is to use pages[n].resize() (https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/Page.html#d1e203105__d1e204692).

    Regards, Tobias

  • April 2, 2020 at 12:51 am #1236384
    Jose Antonio Pulgarin Alvarez

    Member

    Thanks Tobias!

    Regards from Spain!

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