InDesignSecretsInDesignSecrets Podcast 175
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- The Adobe Creative Cloud: What is it?
- In the “cloud” vs. on your hard drive
- The good, the bad, the foggy
- Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Option/Alt-double-click
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Split Cell Vertically
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Anne-Marie @ David – thank you for sharing Kris’ script!
However,
one thing the script does NOT do is calculating rotated frames in the right way. It is always taking the imaginary (horizontal) rectangle that exactly includes the rotated object for calculation (JavaScript lingo is: “geometricBounds”). And geometricBounds will change if you rotate the object a bit further…
For the right approach doing calculations on rotated or skewed objects see Marc Autrets great blog post at:
http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/10/work-around-the-width-height-gap
Uwe