Post edited 9:40 pm – May 20, 2010 by Jongware

Try this script. It will create a NON-PRINTING layer "ImageScales" — just to remind you have to manually switch between printing and non-printing! — as well as a paragraph style "ImageScales". If the layer and/or style already exist, you can adjust them to what you want; it won't change them any further.

Then it goes over all images and inserts their scale.

Make a version with the ImageScales layer set to printable for your clients, and one with the layer non-printable for production (don't do it the other way around, or you'll make your clients less happy, rather than more).

Written on a CS4 machine but it ought to work, methinks.

(Edit: changed 'horizontalScale' to 'absoluteHorizontalScale, and the same for vertical.) (!)

//DESCRIPTION:Label Images with their Scale

// Jongware, 20-May-2010

// No Guarantees, Etc.

try {

app.activeDocument.layers.add({name:"ImageScales", layerColor: [255,192,0], printable: false});

} catch (_) { }

try {

app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.add({name:"ImageScales", justification: Justification.CENTER_ALIGN});

} catch (_) { }

reportLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.item("ImageScales");

reportStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item("ImageScales");

imageList = app.activeDocument.allGraphics;

for (im=0; im<imageList.length; im++)

{

try { showScaleFor (imageList[im]); } catch (_) {}

}

function showScaleFor (anImage)

{

var gb,fr,pg;

gb = anImage.parent.geometricBounds;

pg = anImage.parent;

while (1)

{

if (pg instanceof InsertionPoint)

pg = pg.parentTextframes[0];

if (pg instanceof Document || pg instanceof Spread || pg instanceof Page)

break;

pg = pg.parent;

}

fr = pg.textFrames.add(reportLayer, {geometricBounds: gb, textFramePreferences: {verticalJustification: VerticalJustification.CENTER_ALIGN}});

fr.insertionPoints[0].appliedParagraphStyle = reportStyle;

if (anImage.absoluteHorizontalScale == anImage.absoluteVerticalScale)

fr.contents = twoDec(anImage.absoluteHorizontalScale)+"%";

else

fr.contents = twoDec(anImage.absoluteHorizontalScale) + "%/" + twoDec(anImage.absoluteVerticalScale) + "%";

}

function twoDec(x)

{

return Math.round(x*100)/100;

}

Ah, the wonders of error suppression … I thought: if an error occurs, you might want to have the script ignore that one image and continue automatically. Unfortunately, I made a typo and checked the wrong 'type' somewhere — with the result that both of these image types are skipped without giving me an error message to tell me the code did not work!

Change these two lines

    if (pg instanceof InsertionPoint)

      pg = pg.parentTextframes[0];

to this

    if (pg instanceof Character)

      pg = pg.parentTextFrames[0];

to make the script work as planned.

Bob, change this line

fr = pg.textFrames.add(reportLayer, {geometricBounds: gb, textFramePreferences: {verticalJustification: VerticalJustification.CENTER_ALIGN}});

(12th from the bottom up) to this

fr = pg.textFrames.add(reportLayer, {geometricBounds: gb, textFramePreferences: {verticalJustification: VerticalJustification.CENTER_ALIGN, ignoreWrap:true}});

– I didn't try, but I'm pretty sure that'd do the trick.

I've never used LabelGraphics so I can't recommend something off the top of me head for that.

Post edited 3:32 pm – March 14, 2011 by Jongware

Hey, but you are very close!

All it needs is an "ignoreWrap" command, and that's to be applied to a textFramePreferences, which in turn is a part of a text frame proper. So it's "good" to locate where some text frame gets created, and really "best" when you can find a line that does something with the text frame preferences (*). See the first line you copied!

Add this right after that line:

and you should be alright.

[*] Why do text frames have separate text frame preferences? Nobody knows — it might be because you can, uh, "store" the text frame preferences into an object style. My personal 2nd best guess is the Adobe engineers didn't like the idea to have more than a hundred properties per each text frame.