Moving objects incrementally based on page number

Hey all,
Trying to automate a group of objects moving down a page, driven by the page location in a book.
New to scripting, just need some pointers on best practise, gotchas etc.
Any thoughts?

Using a script doesn't make it 'live', the object will not be 'affected' after you move it once. But apart from that, it's pretty simple.
Given a current page number n, a number of pages ntot, a page height h, and an object height oh, you can use this calculation for the top position:
topy = n*(h – oh)/ntot
You can change an object's y position by writing the value into its geometricBounds array:
var myBounds = someFrame.geometricBounds;
myBounds[2] = myBounds[2] - myBounds[0] + topy;
myBounds[0] = topy;
someFrame.geometricBounds = myBounds;
As you can see, you have to read and write the array in one single piece. You need to change two elements: number [0] holds the top y position, number [2] holds the bottom y position. As you can see, you have to 'calculate' the bottom first, based on the top (A good alternative is using the move function but I can't write that from the top of my head.)

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