Move Text Frame Outside Page into Bleed using Javascript

[davidsonjw]

I need to move the text frame created in the below script to outside the page area to the bleed area. If anyone can help me adjust the below script, that would be wonderful. I have been trying to determine how to use Page Height and Width to do an X, Y adjustment once that is determined. 

I was thinking of using a Get Bounds variable, but I have not been able to successfully incorporate it.

Please see my code below. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.

myDocument = app.activeDocument;

//The bleed and slug properties belong to the documentPreferences object.

with (myDocument.documentPreferences) {

//Bleed

documentBleedBottomOffset = "2in";

documentBleedTopOffset = "2in";

documentBleedInsideOrLeftOffset = "2in";

documentBleedOutsideOrRightOffset = "2in";

//Slug

slugBottomOffset = "0p";

slugTopOffset = "0p";

slugInsideOrLeftOffset = "0p";

slugRightOrOutsideOffset = "0p";

}

var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);

var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);

var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();

//Set the bounds of the text frame [x1, y1, x2, y2]

//The x1, y1 refers to the upper left coordinate position; the x2, y2 refers to the lower right coordinate

//x2 = Height and y2 = Width

myTextFrame.geometricBounds = [0, 0, .52, 5.5];

//Enter text in the text frame.

//("\r" is a return character.+

myTextFrame.contents = "FName Name//12345-6789//\r WxL//\r XXX-YYYYY//W x L-LtrRD//P_";

myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = SpecialCharacters.autoPageNumber;

//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."});

//Absolute move: based on [X , Y] its important to keep in mind that all units are based on your document units

myTextFrame.move([1, 5.5]);

[Anantha Prabu G]

Hi ,

Try this code:

var myDoc = app.documents[0];
with(myDoc.documentPreferences)
{
documentBleedUniformSize = true;
documentBleedTopOffset = "3p";
}
var myPage = myDoc.pages.item(0);
var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();
myTextFrame.geometricBounds = ["4p", "3p","58p" , "25p"];
// Use Y1, X1, Y2, X2
myTextFrame.contents = "pages\rtextFrame\rgeometricBounds";
var newPosition = ["-1.5in"," 0in"];
myTextFrame.move(newPosition)
alert("TextFrame moved")

Thanks,

Prabu

[davidsonjw]

Ananth:

Thank you for sending this over. So, I understand what your doing in terms of the coordinates. So, lets say that the X= -1.5 but the Y= .72" below the page size. Keep in mind that the page size could vary and therefore I need the box to always be .72 below the page size no matter the size.

Best, John

[davidsonjw · Accepted solution]

I was finally able to figure out that I should use the myDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight property within my move statement. This will require the move to get the height of the document.

    myTextFrame.move([-1.5161, myDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight + .72]);