Indesign: Align placed image to container top

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#1

Hi!

I’m trying to get a placed image in InDesign to align to the top of the container frame.
I’ve successfully placed the image and used the fit command to fit the image, but I want it to align to the top of the box, not the center… Any thoughts?

here is the code:

	tell rectangle "EventLogo"
		try
			place "Logo4c.eps"	
		on error
			display dialog "Could not get Logo"
		end try
	end tell

	fit rectangle "EventLogo" given proportionally
#2

I won’t ask why - I’m sure you have your reasons - but you can’t to this through the indesign GUI - but you could acomplish this using geometric bounds…but it will be a little tricky. this code will get you started.

for example:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set myDoc to the active document
	tell myDoc
		--get the geo's of the selected frame (top/left/bottom/right)
		set {tf, lf, bf, rf} to geometric bounds of selection
		
		--get the geo's of the graphic that is placed in the frame
		set {tg, lg, bg, rg} to geometric bounds of graphic 1 of selection
		
		--set the new location of the graphic - you'll have to do the math yourself here
		set geometric bounds of graphic 1 of selection to {tf, lg, bg, rg}
	end tell
end tell
#3

run this with a placed image selected, not the picture box.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set x to selection
	set x1 to item 2 of geometric bounds of parent of item 1 of x --get horizontal origin of box
	set y1 to item 1 of geometric bounds of parent of item 1 of x --get vertical origin of box 
	set w1 to (item 4 of geometric bounds of item 1 of x) - (item 2 of geometric bounds of item 1 of x) -- get width of image
	set h1 to (item 3 of geometric bounds of item 1 of x) - (item 1 of geometric bounds of item 1 of x) --get height of image
	set geometric bounds of item 1 of x to {y1, x1, y1 + h1, x1 + w1}
end tell

This could be cleaned up and calles to ID consolidated for increased performance but this makes it pretty clear what I am doing. Basically you need to get the origin of the parent (rectangle…aka. picture box) then the width and height of the image and reset the visible bounds based on these coordinates.

#4

Thanks! I have figured it out what I needed to do.