Transparency Settings: OuterGlow Size

Question

Hi there,
I've got an big problem with my AppleScript for InDesign CS4. I would like; that my script apply some object effect with one click for my selection in my current InDesign Document. Here's my script:
tell application "Adobe  InDesign CS4"
    set dieBreite to page width of document preferences of active document
    --activate
    tell active document
        set mySelection to selection
        if (count mySelection) is 0 then
            display dialog "Please select an Object"
        else
            tell the selection
                tell transparency settings
                    --set properties of outer glow  settings to {applied:true, blend mode:screen, size:150, effect  color:"Paper", opacity:100, technique:softer}
                    --set properties of  blending settings to {blend mode:normal, opacity:60.0}
                    tell outer glow settings
                        set applied to true
                        --    set size to 0
                        set effect color to "R=255 G=251 B=143"
                        set size to 50.9
                    end tell
                end tell
            end tell
        end if
    end tell
end tell
The Problem is the size; how can I make it higher than 140 points? I would like to have 150 points. Any ideas?
Hope you can help me, and sorry for my english.
Cheers
TheFreak

Answer 1

Hi Lauren,
Got your file this morning and I've looked at it.
In your post and email you said the blend mode had disappeared, but this isn't really the case. The blend mose was applied to the grouped componenets which were then pasted into the frame over the color bar. To see the blend mode you have to get that group re-selected. Probably the easiest way to do that is to select the frame, then right-click and choose Select > Content.
When you do that you'll see the blend mode and transparency setting. Contrary to the description you've provided, the blend mose is lighten, not screen, and that seems to be the problem, though I have no idea why (I really don't know a whole lot about how blending modes are accomplished), though I suspect it has to with trying to lighten a color with black. Changing the blend mode to screen, as you thought it was, seems to work.
Peter