Select text frame and add document/artboard dimension

[lister110]

Hi, Im looking for a simple script which will check the dimensions of an artboard and populate a selected text frame with the size. It would be great if you was working to a scale and you could select the scale option and then the script calculates the dimensions and adds this to the text frame. (I guess thats two parts).

Anyone know of a script that can do this.? I have found a great script which you can select an object and then apply the script to add mark up with a scale option, but I just want to add a simple string to a text frame.

GitHub - adamdehaven/Specify: A script to automate specifying dimensions (and adding dimension lines...

can anyone help?

lister

[OMOTI · Accepted solution]

Select only one text frame and execute this script.

Then the active artboard size is populated in the selected text frame.

Like this?

(function () {
    var doc,
        sel,
        rect,
        w,
        h,
        unitType = "";
    if (app.documents.length === 0) {
        alert("Open Document.");
        return;
    }
    doc = app.activeDocument;
    sel = doc.selection;
    if (sel.length !== 1) {
        alert("Select only one TextFrameItem.");
        return;
    }
    if (!sel[0].constructor.name === "TextFrameItem") {
        alert("Select only one TextFrameItem.");
        return;
    }
    switch (doc.rulerUnits) {
    case RulerUnits.Centimeters:
        unitType = "cm";
        break;
    case RulerUnits.Inches:
        unitType = "in";
        break;
    case RulerUnits.Millimeters:
        unitType = "mm";
        break;
    case RulerUnits.Picas:
        unitType = "pc";
        break;
    case RulerUnits.Points:
        unitType = "pt";
        break;
    case RulerUnits.Pixels:
        unitType = "px";
        break;
    default:
        return;
    }
    rect = doc.artboards[doc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex()].artboardRect;
    w = Math.round(Number(new UnitValue(rect[2] - rect[0], "pt").as(unitType)) * 100) / 100;
    h = Math.round(Number(new UnitValue(rect[1] - rect[3], "pt").as(unitType)) * 100) / 100;
    sel[0].contents = "" + w + unitType + ", " + h + unitType;
}());