Applescript use Document size information

Question

HI ALL,
I am trying to put together a script that would fill up a slug with document size information:
- Let say my document is 8.5"W x 11" H
- Let say that my slug has a "document size" area with placeholder text, like DocWidth x DocHeight
The script would do a find and replace of "DocHeight" by the value of the Height of my document.
Here is an abstract of my applescript as it stands:
......... (there is more before this section: I set document size to a random size, 6"x6", then tells it to put some bleed, then a slug area, then to import my slug that is a snippet)
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
    set myWidth to page width of document preferences of myDocument
    set myHeight to page height of document preferences of myDocument
    set find text preferences to nothing
    set change text preferences to nothing
    set find what of find text preferences to "DocHeight"
    set change to of change text preferences to myHeight
    tell active document
        set myFoundItems to change text
    end tell
end tell
Now my script works, but it gives me the following error:
Adobe InDesign CS4 got an error: Invalid value for set property 'change to'. Expected string or nothing, but received 6.0.
Does anyone know waht I am missing here ?
Thank you for any help!!!!

Answer 1

Change to wants text, not a number. Try:
    set change to of change text preferences to (myHeight as text)
I'd also want to focus that find/change just on the slug area. So if it's in a text frame called "Slug", you'd do something like:
  set myFoundItems to change text parent story of text frame "Slug"
Shane Stanley <[email protected]>
AppleScript Pro, April 2010, Florida <http://www.applescriptpro.com>