CS2-JS:Headline over two pages - Adobe Indesign

from VB:

Property Bounds As Variant
read-only
Member of InDesign.Page
The bounds of the Page, in the format (top, left, bottom, right) as
Array of 4 Units (Doubles or Strings)

Property HorizontalOffset As Variant
read-only
Member of InDesign.InsertionPoint
Member of InDesign.Character
Horizontal offset of the text as Unit (Double or String)

calculate width of page from Bounds
and iterate InsertionPoints/Characters in selected TextFrame for
HorizontalOffset

robin


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Thx for the fast help, but I think it doesn't work with my problem.
But maybe I just don't understand it right.
I got one textframe which contains one single headline. I know the position of the frame and now I want to get access to the space between two characters closest to the middle of the frame to raise the tracking.
Thx Konni

Hi Konstantin,

Why don't you make two connected textframes.
The title will flow through both frames.
You can adjust the position of the textFrames to match the space in the middle for binding.

Use the horizontalOffset of the insertionPoints to find where they are; add kerning to the one nearest the middle of the frame (or the binding of the spread, if the frame is not symmetrically placed on the spread).

Dave

You can use:

ipPosns = myParagraph.insertionPoints.everyItem().horizontalOffset;

to get an array of all the insertionPoints' positions.

Then if targX contains the x-coordinate of the center, you could simply iterate through that array along these lines:

myDist = Math.abs(ipPosns[0] - targX);
for (var j = 1; ipPosns.length > j; j++) {
myNewDist = Math.abs(ipPosns[0] - targX)
if (myNewDist > myDist) { break }
myDist = myNewDist;
}
myParagraph.insertionPoints[j-1].kerning = 1000;

I haven't tested that, but that looks like what you're wanting (you'll need to pick the kerning value that makes sense to you).

Dave