Fit content to a two columns frame

Hi Experts,
I need to fit content in to frame (it is a double column). But I can't see any feature in scripting. Manually also I can see fit option only for single column frame. Please advice me.
thanks,
Pasu

Well, that's a bit clearer. How about this -- building on Kasyan's script. The debugging alerts at the start show what properties to check. It fails
i spectacularly
if you try this on non-standard frames, f.e., if you put a text wrapping image over part of the first column :-)
myTextframe = app.selection[0];
numlines = myTextframe.lines.count();
alert ("Total: "+numlines);
numlines_1 = myTextframe.textColumns[0].lines.count();
alert ("1st column: "+numlines_1);
if (myTextframe.textColumns[0].lines.count() < myTextframe.textColumns[1].lines.count())
while (myTextframe.textColumns[0].lines.count() < myTextframe.textColumns[1].lines.count())
var myBounds = myTextframe.geometricBounds;
myBounds[2] += 1;
myTextframe.geometricBounds = myBounds;
} else
while (myTextframe.textColumns[0].lines.count() > myTextframe.textColumns[1].lines.count())
var myBounds = myTextframe.geometricBounds;
myBounds[2] -= 1;
myTextframe.geometricBounds = myBounds;
if (myTextframe.overflows)
myBounds[2] += 1;
myTextframe.geometricBounds = myBounds;
break;

Similar Messages

How to display content items in two columns?

I have a simple content area set up, that I am adding items in
(items that happen to be uploaded documentation files). I have a
page created that displays the Content Area, with my own
headers/banners etc.
I want to display the item(s) under each folder in the content
are, in two columns, but I can't figure out how?
Thanks.

Dave,
Edit the Folder Style. Select the Folder Layout tab. Select
the Region Properties you want to modify (e.g. Regular Items).
Near the bottom of the page you can specify the number of
columns.
Regards,
Jerry

Tables: Fit Content to Frame

(InDesign CS2)
Since "fit frame to content" is available when you select a frame that contains a table, but "fit content to frame" is not...I'm assuming it's not possible to do that.
I understand that a table can lie well within or outside of its frame, and that can be a nice thing. However, what if I want to make sure the boundaries of the actual table, left to right, take up an EXACT width? Seems like making the frame the exact width I need and then having "fit content to frame" available is what I need.
Am I missing something? Does anyone have a good workaround?

Lisa,
This script will do the job (although the interface is a bit primitive. Just type a number in the units you're using for the horizontal ruler. It displays the "before width" and you can then type the number you want instead. It distributes the extra or the deficit across the existing columns of the table.
//DESCRIPTION: Set Width of Table
// by Dave Saunders
if ((app.documents.length == 0) || (app.selection.length == 0)) { beep() }
aDoc = app.activeDocument;
aSel = app.selection[0];
aTable = findTable(aSel);
tWidth = prompt("Table width", String(aTable.width));
if ((tWidth == null) || (tWidth == "")) { exit() }
n = aTable.columnCount;
w = aTable.width;
for (j = n-1; j >= 0; j--) {
  aTable.columns[j].width = aTable.columns[j].width * (tWidth)/w;
function findTable(obj) {
  if (obj.constructor.name == "Table") { return obj }
  while (obj.constructor.name != "Table") {
    obj = obj.parent;
    if (obj.constructor.name == "Application") {
      errorExit("Can't locate table");
  return obj;
function errorExit(message) {
  if (arguments.length > 0) {
    if (app.version != 3) { beep() } // CS2 includes beep() function.
    alert(message);
  exit(); // CS exits with a beep; CS2 exits silently.
To use the script, copy and paste to ExtendScript Toolkit and save with an appropriate name in the form YourName.jsx in the Scripts folder of the Presets folder of your InDesign CS2 folder (you could put it in a subfolder if you wish). Then to run the script, set-up the appropriate initial conditions (click with the text tool in the table) and double-click the script's name in the Scripts palette.
Dave

Fit Content To Frame Crashes InDesign CS3 !

Hi
iam try to fit the content to it's frame
if(Utils<Facade::IFrameContentFacade>()->CanFitContentToFrame(UIDList(newPageItemRef)))
ErrorCode err=Utils<Facade::IFrameContentFacade>()->FitContentToFrame((UIDList(newPageItemRef)));
But whenever I execute this methos InDesign CS3 crashes..
Wht could be the reason??
thanks,
nataraj

You probably need to pass the content item and not the frame.
Use IHierarchy to navigate to the first child item of
newPageItemRef and pass that to FitContentToFrame instead.

Horizontal paragraph rule across two-column text frame?

Hi,
as the title suggests, how do i get a horizontal rule to run across a two-column text frame?
I have either had the rule just apply to the entered text; had a gap where the column gutter is;
or I have had to set the column gutter to 0mm/px and manually set carriage returns to give the impression of a gutter.
Surely there is a better way?
I'll attach a jpeg of my various options.
Hope I've been clear-enough. All help is appreciated.
Cheers, Matt

You can put the rule in a paragraph which is spanning a columns.
Or you can extend the paragraph rules by inputing minus values to left and right (e.g. -5mm)
Or you can use a table instead.
Or you can use negative left and right intend for the text but extend the rule to the end of the frame.
Never set a carriage return manually.

Fitting Content to Frame to a Path or Mask

We have been asked by a customer to try and achieve the following:
They have a number of eps's of a flat screen TV's. For each TV, there is a path around the outside. We will call this Path 1. There is a second path around the screen of the TV. We will call this Path 2.
Is there a way of placing another image, and fitting content to frame (just like in Indesign), using Path 2 as the bounding box?
We are using both CS3 and CS4.

Mark, while Scripts may not be necessary they can add a level of convenience unattainable with Actions.
As concerns the PAID HELP, the Photoshop Scripting Forum has a couple regulars who, while they may offer their services professionally, still give their advice freely; but in case Adam has no Scripting-experience his needs, should he choose to try a Scripting-solution, might exceed »advice«.
Having only recently started to appreciate and utilize the capabilities of JavaScript for Photoshop myself I may appear overzealous in advocating it, but everybody will have to decide for themselves if they want to give it a try.
With possibly hundreds of images I wouldnt want to rely on the screens (or their paths) to all have the same diameter and a Script can allow for that with transforming the placed image according to the height or width so as to always fill the area completely (thus clipping at the top/bottom or left/right depending on the relation).
And (though too complicated for myself) it would be possible to let Photoshop work off folders and not get stuck by the occasional file that doesnt conform to the naming conventions or lacks a path by ignoring it and documenting unedited files at the end.
Thats always assuming that the photographs of the tv-sets are fairly frontal, because if they are in perspective then the matter gets much more complicated, but what with the allusion to doing it in Indesign I concluded perspectival transformation isnt required anyway.

Shouldn't object style with 'fit content to frame' work with updated images?

I have a script that places pdf files from a list onto pages. The rectangles are built with an object style that fits content to frame. This works, but if the pdf file is then modified, InDesign does not fit the new content to the frame when the link is updated. Is there a reason why the object style does not honor its settings?
Thanks.

I have a script that places pdf files from a list onto pages. The rectangles are built with an object style that fits content to frame. This works, but if the pdf file is then modified, InDesign does not fit the new content to the frame when the link is updated. Is there a reason why the object style does not honor its settings?
Thanks.

CS4 fit content to frame default

Hi all,
Just a quicky, we have just upgraded to CS4 at work (late adopters I know!) and we have an issue with how ID CS4 fits the frame to content by default. The problem with this is it is changing templates of material built in earlier versions of ID, for instance changing ellipse frames to squares, resizing all the frames to fit the content, etc. Is it possible to change this default behavior? All help is appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the responses and I apologise for the delay in replying, it has been flat out here... Anyway I just want to confirm that the problem still exists. I am unsure how to explain it further although I will try
When the frame fitting option is set to 'fit content to frame' Indesign applies a 'fit frame to content' which the operator must then undo. This especially occurs when placing content into ellipse or polygon frames. Indesign always applies a "fit the frame to content" (which obviously blows away the shape), the operator must then undo the 'fit frame to content' that CS4 automatically applies (crtl+z).
Not sure it is related but we also suffer from a one minute delay upon opening Indesign and Acrobat, the windows "csrss.exe" process goes nuts and sits on nearly 100% cpu usage for about a minute before the program becomes usable. It seems related to the number of fonts installed on the system (around 2000) because if I remove all the fonts, delete the adobefnt files and reinstall the fonts the machine runs fine for a week or so before it bogs down again. I know that this file is not a virus, as we run symantec on our machines, also there is only one copy of this process in taskmanager. Also this has happened across multiple machines with varying hardware. Is there a hard limit on fonts?
Thanks again
Regards Chris

Suddenly cannot fit content to frame with cmd/shift/E in Mac

I suddenly, when working on newspaper pages from a set of master templates, can no longer fit an image to a frame using the command/shift/E shortcut to fit content to frame. I can fit the image to frame using the pulldown menu, but not with the shortcut. All I get is an error tone. Also, when I click on the image window with the direct selection tool, instead of the image window being selected, you see this frame outside the image window, like the frame it's working with actually is larger or something (I hope I explained that right). Anybody know what's going on here, and how I might can fix it? I'm sure I accidentally changed some setting somewhere.

It would help if you gave details about your version of ID and OS.
The shorcut problem might be due to a switch to a new shorctut set. Any other shortcuts not working? Is the correct set selected when you go to Edit > Keyboard Shorctuts...? Anything else acting strangely? That could indicate a corrupt set of preferences.
When you select an image with the direct select tool you should see the bounding box of the image which might be larger than the frame containing it (is the image cropped?) selecting a frame withthe direct select tool would reveal a text wrap path, if wrap is applied to the frame. Does either of those sound like what's happening?

Can't see the fit content to frame option....

Hi All,
I'm having some issues trying to click on:
Object > Fitting > Fit Content to Frame
This area is simply greyed out and I cant' select the option to do so.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Daniel

I just wondered if you can please advise how I could click a button and have the text within the text box automatically resize to fit the frame?
This is not a built-in capability of InDesign. Macinbytes told you that this was the case, and John told you why.
However, InDesign has a scripting interface, so plenty of people have written additional tools to make particular tasks easier. I think that one of these scripts from In-Tools will be exactly what you're looking for.

How to center title text and table across two columns

Hello,
I want to be able to center a table and its title across a two column page. The pages where I want to do this contain text in both columns or text in the left column and graphics in the right. On the same pages as the text and graphics, I'd like to center, across both columns, a table with a title. What is the best way to do this?
If I insert the table in the left column, I can size it to fit over both columns but I can't type directly into the cells that cover the right column (I can type in the cells covering the right column if I Tab to them but it's tedious and doesn't seem right). With the table's title, I've tried using the Across All Columns paragraph setting, but the text stays in the column the paragraph marker is in.
We are using Frame 8 on Windows XP Professional. The Master pages are Right and Left pages that are set up with two columns, both tagged as A with the Autoconnect feature on so that the text flows from the bottom of the left column to the top of the right.
Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Tim

Yes, equal-sized columns. No, they're always equal. And that answers
David's question: you're using two frames because you want unequal columns.
Frame's paragraph-level column controls only work on columns made by
dividing a single frame into two or more columns. So you're back to
square one: you need two frames because your columns are unequal; you
need one frame so you can span columns.
Another possibility is that you might set up your document with a
sidehead column, but I hesitate to recommend this because I still can't
quite envision what your layout looks like. Any chance you can post a
PDF somewhere?
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

Two-Column text flow

I would like to create a body of text arranged in two columns so that text that is entered into the first column will, when first col. is full, continue into the second, and when that is full, into a new page, etc. Would you please show me how to set up my page to make this happen.
At present I am having to manually move text around. Wondering if there is a way to have inDesign manage this for me automatically.

'S'teffin 'T'D' schrieb:
The first thing is to make Text frame option numbered 2 in the master page. And Just flow the content, it will be fine and easy.
Nope, the correct answer would depend on the version, what we don't know.
Your answer would be the best practice for InDesign CS4 and older.
With InDesign CS5 and later it is better to set up the master with a single column and set up object styles for the text frames with 2 or more columns. It is helpful to put normal ruler guides to the column edges.
Span column would not work in 2 single columns, only with a single text frame.

Creating a two columns text reflow

Hi
I'm trying to create a two column page which needs to get data that will fill the columns. Upon filling one column, the text will need to reflow to the next one (as much as a two column text frame in a layout program does).
Is it possible in a Designer ES? (version 8.2.1.5161.1.566259) What is the best practice to do so?
Thanks,
Yossi Maoz

Are you trying to make it an interactive form or are you going to merge data onto the template and make a print form? In either case I modified your sample. The root Page subform must be set to flowed. You do not need a field in the second content area. I resized the 1st field to make it easier. I changed the layout to allow the field to expand in the Y direction (on the layout tab). I cahnged the Form Properties/Preview to Interactive so that I coudl enter in data. Now when the field fills up scroll bars will appear and when you tab off of the field the field will be redrawn to its actual size. Enter in enough data to case a page overflow and you will see the second column fill up.
Paul

How can I interact between two different frames in the same indesign template as well as from one template to another.

I am looking for the best way (or any way) to interact between two different frames in the same indesign template as well as from one template to another. It's for a DPS app which needs to carry some button initiated data from one page to another and then present it in a table.

There is no simple way to do it, as itunes wont let you use it on another computer without wiping the contents first.
However if you really want to transfer songs to another computer then you could try this;
* make sure that your ipod is accessible as a disk drive (ipod options)
* when you plug your ipod into the computer you want to transfer to make sure you select "no" or "cancel" when it asks to wipe the contents. Leave the ipod connected and quit from itunes.
* go to "my computer" and access the ipod directly. You probably have to select "view hidden files" from windows. You will see a lot of folders with odd names like ZX838aff with similar named files inside.
* copy these files to a folder on your computers hardrive. Now remove the ipod and start itunes.
* import the files from the folder you made in the last step.
* Now your music is on itunes, but with unrecogisable names.
This is the only way I have found to do it, but there may be another way, say with an application to do the hard work for you.
Generic homebuild PC Windows XP
Generic homebuild PC Windows XP

How to add two columns in OBIEE report?

Hi to All,
Can anyone tell me how to add two columns in OBIEE report and get that result in a new column?
Thanks in Advance,
Thenmozhi

Assume you already have two columns SalesAmt1 and SalesAmt2, and you want to derive 3rd column say SalesAmt3 which would be the sum of SalesAmt1 and SalesAmt2.
For this, as I mentioned above pull SalesAmt1 and SalesAmt2 columns in Report. Now pull another column (say SalesAmt1) and open the fx. Clear the contents of fx. Now locate the columns button in the bottom of the fx. From Here, first select SalesAmt1 and + sign and the select SalesAmt2.
Now in this new column, the fx should look like SalesAmt1 + SalesAmt2.
Let me know if you are looking for something else.
Thanks

Fit content to a two columns frame

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for