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• • September 3, 2024 at 4:11 pm #14406135
    Matthew Paquette

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    I’ve got a 130 page document that I’ve created via data merge. Each page contains 1 text frame that stretches vertically based on content. I’m looking for a script that will auto-size the pages to the size of the text frame. Does that exist?

    Thanks so much all!

    Matt

  • September 4, 2024 at 1:27 am #14406136
    Nick Passmore

    Participant

    I don’t know offhand whether there is a script “in the wild” that will do this but it’s certainly scriptable.

    Are you working on MacOS or Windows?

    Is there only one text frame per page?

    And is the text frame on each page already expanded to fit the content?

    Is the stretch to be height only or width only or both?

    Do some pages need to be made smaller?

    Nick Passmore

  • September 4, 2024 at 7:09 am #14406137
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Just For Fun! …

    https://snipboard.io/3iCQpY.jpg

    By Script of course:

    /*
    _FRIdNGE-0758_ResizePageOnTextFrame.jsx
    Script written by FRIdNGE, Michel Allio [04/09/2024]
    */

    app.doScript(“main()”, ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, “Resize Page On Text Frame! …”);

    function main() {

    app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    myDoc.zeroPoint = [0,0];
    myDoc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN;

    var myPages = myDoc.pages,
    P = myPages.length, p;

    for ( p = 0; p < P; p++ ) {
    var myPage = myPages[p];
    myPage.marginPreferences.properties = {top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0};
    var myTFrame = myPage.textFrames[0];
    myTFrame.move([0,0]);
    var myPageWidth = myTFrame.geometricBounds[3]-myTFrame.geometricBounds[1];
    var myPageHeight = myTFrame.geometricBounds[2]-myTFrame.geometricBounds[0];
    myPage.resize(BoundingBoxLimits.GEOMETRIC_PATH_BOUNDS, AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR, ResizeMethods.REPLACING_CURRENT_DIMENSIONS_WITH, [myPageWidth, myPageHeight]);
    }

    alert( “Done! …\rby FRIdNGE, Michel Allio [04/09/2024]” )

    }

    (^/) The Jedi

    • October 7, 2024 at 10:36 am #14406983
      Mike Rankin

      Keymaster

      Thanks for posting this, Michel. Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work. Here’s the error:

      JavaScript Error!
      Error Number: 45 Error String: Object is invalid
      Engine: main File: /Users/mike/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 19.0/ en_US/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Layout Scripts / ResizePageOnTextFrame.jsx Line: 6 Source: app.doScript”main)”, ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes. ENTIRE_SCRIPT, “Resize Page On Text Frame! …”);

      This forum makes the code look like it has smart quotes but it doesn’t in the script, so that’s not the problem.

    • October 7, 2024 at 10:21 pm #14407001
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

      Participant

      Problem with the quotes! …

      When I paste the code copied here, the quotes are bad!

      https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/100md1sshbg7ljlz17dp7/_FRIdNGE-0760_ResizePageOnTextFrame.zip?rlkey=har8bxwdolxcmwmyiiim3ezyz&st=rpb35y27&dl=0

      (^/)

    • October 8, 2024 at 8:08 am #14407004
      Mike Rankin

      Keymaster

      Ok, I got it to work. The problem wasn’t in the code, it was that my document didn’t have a primary text frame. Thanks.

    • October 8, 2024 at 10:01 am #14407008
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      Bonjour Michel! In the future, please put the “pre” or “code” html tags before and after your code, and then our site will not change the quotes.

      For example, here is
      "some"
      text inside pre tags.
      

      :-D

  • October 6, 2024 at 11:43 pm #14406963
    James Dempsey

    Participant

    SizePageToThing is a free script – you would just select the frame on the page and run the script. Only does one page at a time though.

    Free InDesign Scripts

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