Find and delete graphic lines by geometric bounds

Question

Hi everybody,
I am really desperate after days browsing the web and forums I still can't figure this out.
I am working on InDesign CS3 on a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.
I have a 300 page catalog put together through a data merge. Unfortunately this way I produce 2 graphic lines at the end of each page that I would rather like to delete. Since I do not want to do that manually on each page and since I will have to put together this catalog quite frequently in the future I would like to delete those lines using Applescript.
Since I have about 12 more of the same lines on each page (same style, color, stroke etc) I figured the only way to tell Applescript which ones to delete is by geometric bounds because those lines are always at the same coordinates on each page.
Unfortunately I cannot figure it out. I tried the following code:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
     tell document 1
          repeat with oneFrame in (get graphic lines whose stroke weight = 1)
               if geometric bounds of oneFrame is {0, 0, 0, 210} then
                    delete oneFrame
               end if
          end repeat
     end tell
end tell
REPLY
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
     get every graphic line of document 1 whose stroke weight = 1
          --> {graphic line id 187 of page id 177 of spread id 172 of document "Untitled-16"}
     get geometric bounds of graphic line id 187 of page id 177 of spread id 172 of document "Untitled-16"
          --> {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 210.0}
     delete graphic line id 187 of page id 177 of spread id 172 of document "Untitled-16"
end tell
This worked fine for the line placed at x 0mm y 0mm with a length of 210mm.
I tried the same thing with a line at x 3mm y 134mm length of 210mm with the following code
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
     tell document 1
          repeat with oneFrame in (get graphic lines whose stroke weight = 1)
               if geometric bounds of oneFrame is {134, 3, 134, 213} then
                    delete oneFrame
               end if
          end repeat
     end tell
end tell
REPLY:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
     get every graphic line of document 1 whose stroke weight = 1
          --> {graphic line id 213 of page id 177 of spread id 172 of document "Untitled-16"}
     get geometric bounds of graphic line id 213 of page id 177 of spread id 172 of document "Untitled-16"
          --> {134.0, 3.0, 134.0, 213.0}
end tell
This was my best shot. No idea if I am on the right track or totally off bounds.
Any help would be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance..
Osinho

Answer 1

Good Morning Mary,
Thank you for your reply.
I found a solid solution using a different approach.
It seems like the geometric bounds selector is not accurate for values with decimal values like 149.267 because in reality this value is 149.266666666666666666666667 (period 6). Since some of my lines have such a pattern it just won't work (that's the only explanation I could come up with...)
Nevertheless here my solution:
The lines that have to be removed are always the last 2 lines of a total of 12 lines on a page. Knowing that I incorporated a running index telling the script "please delete only the lines with index 11 and 12" once the max count of 12 per page is reached I reset the index so it starts from scratch for the next page. Works like a charm!
(don't get confused because I count down from 12 to 1 - this needed to be done because the loop starts at the bottom of the page rather than at the top)
Here the code:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"     
     tell document 1
          set lCount to 12
          repeat with oneFrame in (get graphic lines whose stroke weight = 1)
               if (lCount is 12 or lCount is 11) then
                    delete oneFrame
               end if
               if lCount is 1 then
                    set lCount to 13
               end if
               set lCount to lCount - 1
          end repeat          
     end tell
end tell
Thank you very much for your assistance!
Highly appreciated!
Have a great weekend...
Osinho