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I do not see a property that directly provides this information.

You can work out whether or not a spread is rotated by looking at the page.bounds, but that seems a rather clumsy way to get the information.

Dave

It's probably something to do with spread.transformValuesOf (myCoordinateSpace), but I never really got my brain round transformation matrices. They're fiendishly complicated! In the old forums there was a sticky topic by Ole on transf. matrices, but I don't see that now.

Peter

I agree that this is indeed bad, bad, bad.

If the coordinates are changed by this action then I would expect at least a spread property that tells you the spread is rotated.

Dave

Hi Seuzo,

Very well done.

I took your code and cleaned it up the way I would have done it (I don't think you gain very much -- if anything, from all those "if"s). I also restructured the function to accept both Page and Spread objects. Assuming that the document is the active one is not a safe asumption. I changed that as well...

function GetSpreadRotation(pageOrSpread) {//accepts a Page, Spread, or MasterSpread
  var doc = pageOrSpread.parent;// the doc will be either the parent, or the parent's parent...
  if(pageOrSpread instanceof Page){doc=doc.parent}
  //if(!(doc instanceof Document)){return null}// uncomment this to error check for the wrong type of pageOrSpread...
  var origRulerOrigin = doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin;
  var origZP = doc.zeroPoint;
  doc.zeroPoint=[0,0];
  doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.PAGE_ORIGIN;
  var page = pageOrSpread;
  if (!(page instanceof Page)){// it must be a Spread or MasterSpread
    page=pageOrSpread.pages[0];
  }
  var pageBounds = page.bounds;
  var retAngle = 0;
  if(pageBounds[0] == 0 && pageBounds[1] == 0) {
    retAngle = 0;
  } else if (pageBounds[0] == 0 && pageBounds[3] == 0) {
    retAngle = 90;
  } else if (pageBounds[2] == 0 && pageBounds[3] == 0) {
    retAngle = 180;
  } else if (pageBounds[1] == 0 && pageBounds[2] == 0) {
    retAngle = 270;
  }
  doc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = origRulerOrigin;
  doc.zeroPoint = origZP;
  return retAngle;
}
var doc=app.documents[0];
var spread = doc.spreads[0];
spread_angle = GetSpreadRotation(spread);
alert("Spread Angle: " + spread_angle);
var page = doc.pages[0];
spread_angle = GetSpreadRotation(page);
alert("Page Angle: " + spread_angle);
var masterSpread = doc.masterSpreads[0];
spread_angle = GetSpreadRotation(masterSpread);
alert("Master Spread Angle: " + spread_angle);

function getSpreadRotation(/*Page|Spread|MasterSpread*/ps)
// ---------------------------------------------------------
//      0 => NORMAL , -90 => CW, +90 => CCW, 180 => REVERSED
{
     return ps.
          transformValuesOf(CoordinateSpaces.pasteboardCoordinates)[0].
          counterclockwiseRotationAngle;
}
 
 
// Test
// ---
var mySpread = app.activeDocument.spreads[0];
alert( getSpreadRotation(mySpread) );

@+

Marc