Hi All,
I’m using InDesign CS5 and ActionScript.
I have some text in a TextFrame marked with various Tags (XMLElements). I also want an in-line image between several of the words, with that image having its own Tag.
I first entered some text in several tags, and then emptied the text from one of the Tags so that I could place a picture there which would move in-line with the text.
The problem is, I can not figure out how to place an image file into an XMLElement. There is no way to add a new image – the XMLElement’s “images” property doesn’t have an add() method, and there is no XMLElement.place() method.
How can I place a picture in an extant XMLElement via scripting?
TIA,
mlavie
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I’m not sure, but the way you probably need to go is to first place the image into the text and then markup the image with the xml you want…
Harbs
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Hi Harbs,
Thanks for responding. I managed to figure this one out myself, although it is not exactly intuitive.
The empty tag (XMLElement) seems to have a a single, empty Text in its texts collection. Oddly enough, the Text class has a place method, so
texts.item(0).place(myFile)
works just fine.
mlavie
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It’s empty?
I would have thought it contains a single InsertionPoint…
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True. I just realized I could do .place() on an InsertionPoint.
