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10: Working with Preflight
Adding Rules 154 on removeProfile(profileName) tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5" set myProfiles to preflight profiles set profileCount to count of myProfiles repeat with i from 1 to profileCount if name of item i of myProfiles is equal to profileName then delete item i of myProfiles end if end repeat end tell end removeProfile
Adding Rules
A preflight profile contains a mutually exclusive set of rules. To add a rule to a profile, follow these steps:
1.
Add a rule to a profile by name.
Rules are added by name. For information on rule names, see
“Available Rules” on page 156
. The following adds the ADBE_PageSizeOrientation rule to the profile.
--Add a rule that requires a specific page size and orientation
--(portrait or landscape).
set RULE_NAME to "ADBE_PageSizeOrientation" set myRule to make preflight profile rule in myProfile with properties
{name:RULE_NAME, id:RULE_NAME}
2.
Set the rule’s data values.
Many, but not all, rules have data properties. For a complete specification of the rules available with
InDesign, see “Available Rules” on page 156
. The ADBE_PageSizeOrientation rule contains particular data properties that allow you to specify a page size. The following sets the acceptable page height and width, a tolerance (fudge factor), and an option for handling page orientation.
tell myRule
--Requires the page size to be 8.5in x 11in (Letter Size)
--enters a value for tolerance make rule data object with properties {name:"tolerance", data type:real data type, data value:0.01}
--Sets the width to the point equivalent of 8.5 inches make rule data object with properties {name:"width", data type:real data type, data value:612}
--Sets the width to the point equivalent of 11 inches make rule data object with properties {name:"height", data type:real data type, data value:792}
--true = ignore orientation is checked make rule data object with properties {name:"ignore_orientation", data type:boolean data type, data value:true} end tell
3.
Set the rule’s reporting state.
This is done using the rule’s flag
property. There are several choices (disabled, information, warning, and error), controlled by the
PreflightRuleFlag
enumeration.
