Comments on: Transform a Frame Into a Grid of Frames

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:53:11 +0000

@Chien: I wrote this elsewhere in reply your question, too: I don’t know any way to select multiple inline objects. It is a frustrating limitation.

By: Chien

Chien — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:15:48 +0000

Can you tell me, how to select multi inline graphics in a file. Maybe have some plugins to solve this problem?
Thanks

By: lauren

lauren — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:50:51 +0000

@David, Thank you! Fixed!

By: Don Ayer

Don Ayer — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:44:31 +0000

Well, I guess you could do it that way. I’ve always just used the Distribute command with zero space between.

Create a square (with NO STROKE; a stroke will offset the distribute), copy it horizontal for the number of columns you want, and then Distribute with zero space.
Group that row.
Copy the row vertically for the number of rows you want and then distribute with zero space.
Group the whole mess.
Now you can scale it to your heart’s desire and then give it whatever stroke and fill you want.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:06:30 +0000

@Lauren when this happens, the solution is usually to rebuild your preferences. (See Resources > InDesign FAQ at the top of this page.)

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:41:47 +0000

Can someone possibly help me out? When I switched to Leopard (I’m using CS3) my scripts stopped working. They are all installed in the right spots, all showing up where they should. I double click on a script to use it (like I always did…) I get the beach ball for a split second, then nothing happens. Any ideas?

By: Jonathan Mayer

Jonathan Mayer — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:50:04 +0000

This script has come in handy many times for me, but I hadn’t tried it on a frame with an existing image inside. Good stuff. Thanks!

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:24:59 +0000

Google “makegrid.jsx”

If you want, you can go to Layout>Create Guides, then input the amount of columns and rows and the spacing, set it to Margins if you want, then insert a frame yourself, duplicate them to save time, and have a Object Style for Fit Frame Proportionally, or whatever you want for it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:45:58 +0000

This script isn’t included on the education version CS@ CDs. Searching Adobe’s web site yields a similar but different script, “Split Into Grid” which also defaults to point measurements.
I tried editing “”Split Into Grid” to default to inches, using inches instead of millimeters as a previous poster suggested but the script doesn’t run after replacing “points” with “inches.”
Is MakeGrid.jsx available as a stand-alone download anywhere online? Does anyone know what change could make the script editable in inches rather than in pints measurements?
Thanks to anyone w/ the answers.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:48:39 +0000

Just solved my own problem…

I changed the two parts of the script that said:
“editValue:12, editUnits:MeasurementUnits.points});”

To:
“editValue:8.504, editUnits:MeasurementUnits.millimeters});”

And now my gutters default to 3mm!
(It makes me tempted to start writing my own scripts!)