Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Placing Text and Setting Text-Import Preferences

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Placing Text and Setting Text-Import Preferences 74
function from this listing; you can find it in “Creating a text frame” on page 71” or in the SpecialCharacters
tutorial script.)
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
//Create a text frame on the current page.
var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();
//Set the bounds of the text frame.
myTextFrame.geometricBounds = myGetBounds(myDocument, myDocument.pages.item(0));
//Entering special characters directly.
myTextFrame.contents = "Registered trademark: Æ\rCopyright: ©\rTrademark: ?\r";
//Entering special characters by their Unicode glyph ID value:
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "Not equal to:
\u2260\rSquare root: \u221A\rParagraph: \u00B6\r";
//Entering InDesign special characters by their enumerations:
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "Automatic page number
marker:";
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents =
SpecialCharacters.autoPageNumber;
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "\r";
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "Section symbol:";
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents =
SpecialCharacters.sectionSymbol;
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "\r";
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "En dash:";
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = SpecialCharacters.enDash;
myTextFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints.item(-1).contents = "\r";
The easiest way to find the Unicode ID for a character is to use InDesign’s Glyphs palette: move the cursor
over a character in the palette, and InDesign displays its Unicode value. To learn more about Unicode, visit
http://www.unicode.org
.
Placing Text and Setting Text-Import Preferences
In addition to entering text strings, you can place text files created using word processors and text editors.
The following script shows how to place a text file on a document page (for the complete script, see
PlaceTextFile):
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
//Set the measurement units to points.
myDocument.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;
myDocument.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.points;
//Get the current page.
var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);
//Get the top and left margins to use as a place point.
var myX = myPage.marginPreferences.left;
var myY = myPage.marginPreferences.top;
//Autoflow a text file on the current page.
//Parameters for Page.place():
//File as File object,
//[PlacePoint as Array [x, y]]
//[DestinationLayer as Layer object]
//[ShowingOptions as Boolean = False]
//[Autoflowing as Boolean = False]
//You'll have to fill in your own file path.
var myStory = myPage.place(File("/c/test.txt"), [myX, myY], undefined, false, true)[0];
//Note that if the PlacePoint parameter is inside a column, only the vertical (y)
//coordinate will be honored--the text frame will expand horizontally to fit the
column.