Resizing A Text Box in iWork Pages '09

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Resizing A Text Box in iWork Pages '09

I am trying to tell Pages '09 to resize a text box using Applescript with little luck. Any help is appreciated.

There is already a text box on the page, but I need to re-size it to accommodate a longer string. I have tried many things, with this appearing to be the closest:

tell application "Pages"
activate
tell front document
tell text box 1
set locked to 0
set bounds to {"1 in", "1 in", "3 in", "6 in"}
end tell
end tell
end tell

Still, it errors out.

Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 2 - 3 GHz Processors (Mac Pro), Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 19, 2010 9:51 PM

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Answer 1

Pierre L.

Level 5

4,635 points

Apr 20, 2010 4:40 AM in response to Boberino

The following script should do what you are asking for:

*tell application "Pages"*
activate
*tell front document*
*tell text box 1*
*--return properties*
*set locked to 0*
*set horizontal position to 1*
*set vertical position to 1*
*set width to 2*
*set height to 5*
*end tell*
*end tell*
*end tell*

To know which properties you can get or set, uncomment the “return properties” statement in the above script.

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