Thanks for the tip. I have that working now.

One last thing though. Could you let me know how I can check to see if a particular layer (by name) exists and if it does then stop the script with an alert. When this layer name occurs on a document I need to be aware of it as I need to manually adjust the content.

Thanks again!

Hello

I think I may have oversold myself there! Below is the script as it currently stands. It takes a single file and repeats placing it x ammount of times on an A3 page. After it each placement it checks to see how much space is left on the page and then, if required, adds a new page and starts again.

It's my first attempt at javascript, so I dont know if its a bit too verbose! I have had to retype it as it wouldn't paste correctly! So please excuse any spelling errors!

Could you please show me how to integrate the above in the script and how to alter the loop correctly.

Thanks for help so far!

var myDoc = app.documents.add();

myDoc.documentPreferences.pageHeight = 297;

myDoc.documentPreferences.pageWidth = 420;

var pagHeight = myDoc.documentPreferences.pageHeight;

var myY1 = 10;

var myX1 = 10;

var myY2 = 20;

var myX2 = 20;

var myPage = app.activeWindow.activePage;

var aFile = new File(“Path to my image”);

for(var i = 0; i < 20, i++){

//Make frame and place graphic

var myFrame = myPage.rectangles.add();

myFrame.geometricBounds = [myY1,myX1,myY2,myX2];

myFrame.contentType = ContentType.GRAPHIC_TYPE;

myFrame.place(aFile);

myFrame.fit(FitOptions.FrameToContent);

//Get new gb references – my use some of this at a later date!

var myGb = myFrame.geometricBounds;

var xcoord = myGb[1];

var xcoord = myGb[0];

var frameWidth = myGb[3] – myGb[1];

var frameHeight = myGb[2] – myGb[0];

if(myGb[2] >= pagHeight – frameHeight){

var myPage = myDoc.pages.add();

var myY1 = 10;

var myX1 = 10;

var myY2 = 20;

var myX2 = 20;

}else{

var myY1 = myY1 + (frameHeight + 3);

var myY2 = myY1 + frameHeight;

}

}

Thanks for those suggestions, I am really just trying things out and figured it would be a good place to start as it was something I had to do. The name isn't common or an actual real word and its not XYZ (or C for that matter!) so the random capitalisation shouldn't be a problem. Although I will probably just do a find/change, as you say, for the actual job.

Thanks again!