Display part of an image in a box

Question

I have a script that places several images in boxes using script labels.  I use the command, "fit myrect3 given content to frame" and that works great for all images but one.  One image is larger than the box and I only want to show a portion of the image.  Currently I move the image manually until I can only see the part of the image I want.  The image is always formatted the same so I wanted to know if there is a command to insert an image in a box with an offset so only part of the image shows?

Answer 1

Are you targeting the image object within the rectangle for the move command? Here are two examples one using the 'move' method the other by getting the 'bounds' and repositioning by changing those. If you get the bounds of the containing rectangle too then you should be able to use some math on how to fill & position within the rectangle.
set This_Image to choose file
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
tell active document
tell page 1
tell rectangle 1
place This_Image
move image 1 by {-10, -10}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
set This_Image to choose file
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
tell active document
tell page 1
tell rectangle 1
place This_Image
set {Rect_T, Rect_L, Rect_B, Rect_R} to geometric bounds
set {Pict_T, Pict_L, Pict_B, Pict_R} to geometric bounds of image 1
set geometric bounds of image 1 to ¬
{Pict_T - 10, Pict_L - 10, Pict_B - 10, Pict_R - 10}
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell