Adobe 0046100128056 Scripting Guide - Page 71

6 Text and Type Entering, editing, and formatting text are the tasks that make up the bulk of the time spent working on most InDesign documents. Because of this, automating text and type operations can result in large productivity gains. This chapter shows how to script the most common operations involving text and type. The sample scripts in this chapter are presented in order of complexity, starting with very simple scripts and building toward more complex operations. We assume that you have already read Adobe InDesign CS5 Scripting Tutorial and know how to create, install, and run a script. We also assume that you have some knowledge of working with text in InDesign and understand basic typesetting terms. Entering and Importing Text This section covers the process of getting text into your InDesign documents. Just as you can type text into text frames and place text files using the InDesign user interface, you can create text frames, insert text into a story, or place text files on pages using scripting. Creating a text frame The following script creates a text frame, sets the bounds (size) of the frame, then enters text in the frame (for the complete script, see the MakeTextFrame tutorial script): var myDocument = app.documents.item(0); var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0); var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add(); //Set the bounds of the text frame. myTextFrame.geometricBounds = [72, 72, 288, 288]; //Enter text in the text frame. myTextFrame.contents = "This is some example text." //Note that you could also use a properties record to //create the frame and set its bounds and contents in one line: //var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add( {geometricBounds:[72, 72, 288, 288], contents:"This is some example text."}); The following script shows how to create a text frame that is the size of the area defined by the page margins. myGetBounds is a useful function that you can add to your own scripts, and it appears in many other examples in this chapter. (For the complete script, see MakeTextFrameWithinMargins.) var myDocument = app.documents.item(0); var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0); //Create a text frame on the current page. var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add(); //Set the bounds of the text frame. myTextFrame.geometricBounds = myGetBounds(myDocument, myPage); //Enter text in the text frame. myTextFrame.contents = "This is some example text." The following script fragment shows the myGetBounds function. 71