Adobe InDesign CS5 Scripting Tutorial

Adobe InDesign CS5 Scripting Tutorial Adding features to “Hello World” 25
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Adding features to “Hello World”
Next, we create a new script that makes changes to the “Hello World” publication that we created with our
first script. Our second script demonstrates how to do the following:
� Get the active document.
� Use a function (or handler in AppleScript).
� Get the page dimensions and page margins of the active document.
� Resize a text frame.
� Change the formatting of the text in the text frame.
AppleScript
Make sure you have the Hello World document open—this script relies on objects we created in that
script. If you closed the document without saving it, simply run the HelloWorld.applescript script
again to make a new document.
Either open the ImprovedHelloWorld.applescript tutorial script, or perform the following steps to
create the script:
1. In the Script Editor, choose File > New to create a new script.
2. Enter the following code:
--Improved "Hello World"
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
--Get a reference to a font.
try
--Enter the name of a font on your system, if necessary.
set myFont to font "Helvetica"
end try
--Get the active document and assign
--the result to the variable "myDocument."
set myDocument to document 1
tell myDocument
--Use the handler "myGetBounds" to get the bounds of the
--"live area" inside the margins of page 1.
set myBounds to my myGetBounds(myDocument, page 1)