OK. I looked here and there, got some bridgetalk sample scripts and I'm here:
if I run this from PS it will tell me the size of the jpg, then I want it to open ID create a frame, which it does, and put this size (thumbWidth) in the frame instead of the text. Can anyone help me with this, pretty please?
Code: Select allvar doc = app.activeDocument;
var thumbWidth = doc.width;
alert(thumbWidth);
function SnpSendMessageToInDesign() {
this.requiredContext = "\tExecute against Bridge CS5 main engine,\n InDesign CS5 must also be running.";
$.level = 1; // Debugging level
}
SnpSendMessageToInDesign.prototype.run = function() {
var retval = true;
if(!this.canRun()) {
retval = false;
return retval;
}
// Create the message object
var bt = new BridgeTalk();
// Initialize with the target and message string
bt.target = "indesign-6.0.6";
bt.body = "var SnpSentMessage = {}; SnpSentMessage.create = " + createInDesignObjects.toString();
bt.body += "SnpSentMessage.create();"
bt.onError = function(errObj)
{
$.writeln(errObj.body);
}
bt.onResult = function(resObj)
{
var retval = eval(resObj.body);
$.writeln("SnpSendMessageToInDesign: (Bridge) received result = " + retval);
$.writeln("SnpSendMessageToInDesign: (Bridge) the process of creating objects in InDesign has finished...");
BridgeTalk.bringToFront("indesign-6.0.6");
}
bt.send();
$.writeln("SnpSendMessageToInDesign: (Bridge) BridgeTalk.send() invoked, SnpSendMessageToInDesign.run() exiting");
return retval;
}
SnpSendMessageToInDesign.prototype.canRun = function() {
// Must run in PS
// InDesign must be running
if((BridgeTalk.appName == "photoshop") && BridgeTalk.isRunning("indesign-6.0.6")) {
return true;
}
// Fail if these preconditions are not met.
$.writeln("ERROR:: Cannot run SnpSendMessageToInDesign");
$.writeln(this.requiredContext);
return false;
}
function createInDesignObjects() {
$.writeln("SnpSendMessageToInDesign: (InDesign) entering createInDesignObjects");
// var mydoc = app.activeDocument;
var mydoc = app.documents.add();
with(mydoc.pages.item(0)) {
myframe = textFrames.add(mydoc.layers.item("Layer 1"));
myframe.geometricBounds = ["20mm", "50mm", "40mm", "140mm"];
myframe.contents = "This is where the variable should go";
}
$.writeln("SnpSendMessageToInDesign: (InDesign) leaving createInDesignObjects");
return true;
}
if(typeof(SnpSendMessageToInDesign_unitTest ) == "undefined") {
new SnpSendMessageToInDesign().run();
}