Get bounds of document using applescript

I am after getting the bounds of the document in Pages. I am aware one can use the window object to get the bounds of the window but I am after the bounds of the document itself. This can obviously vary when the 'Notes' pane is open etc so I can't just use the bounds of the window.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance, Andy

Hi Andy,
Are you looking for the paper size? Then the following code should do the trick:
tell application "Pages"
set {theWidth, theHeight} to {width, height} of page of front document
end tell
{item 1 of theWidth, item 1 of theHeight} --> {8.5, 11.0} for instance

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