Text Frames for Page 2 to End Up on Page 1

[mbornbach]

I have a script that measures text frames and places those measurements as text inside the text frame. The only problem I'm having is that InDesign wants to put the measurements for page 2 of the spread on page 1. What do I need to change to convince InDesign to put the measurements for page 2 on page 2?

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				--CREATING SEPARATE NEW LAYER FOR THE MEASURMENTS AND TEXT BOXES IF IT DOESN'T EXIST
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				open afile
				
				
				tell document 1 -->Beginning of tell document 1 block
					try
						set measuringLayer to make layer with properties {name:"Measure"}
						
						--Telling script to use existing measure layer if it already exists
					on error
						set measuringLayer to layer "Measure"
					end try



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					--GETTING MEASUREMENTS AND ADDING THEM AS TEXT TO THE MEASURED TEXT FRAME
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--Displaying a message to the user if there are no text frames on the measure layer
					if (count of every text frame of measuringLayer) is 0 then -->Beginning of if statement
						set boxesDontExist to true -->Using this to display a dialog further down in the script, after the repeat loop ends.
						
						
						--Getting the measurements of every text frame on the measure layer
					else
						
						set my_pages to every page
						repeat with a_page in my_pages
							set page_name to get the name of a_page
							
							
							set boxesExist to true -->Using this to display a dialog further down in the script, after the repeat loop ends.
							set measuringTextFrames to (every text frame of page page_name whose item layer is measuringLayer)
							repeat with measuringTextFrame in measuringTextFrames -->Beginning of second repeat loop
								
								
								--Geometric bounds are {top side, left side, bottom side, right side}, also referred to as {y1, x1, y2, x2}
								set y2 to item 3 of geometric bounds of measuringTextFrame -->y2 is the bottom side of the frame
								set y1 to item 1 of geometric bounds of measuringTextFrame -->y1 is the top side of the frame
								set x1 to item 2 of geometric bounds of measuringTextFrame -->x1 is the left side of the frame
								set x2 to item 4 of geometric bounds of measuringTextFrame -->x2 is the right side of the frame
								
								
								--Doing some math with those measurements to figure out the square inches of each frame
								set frameHeight to y2 - y1 -->bottom of frame - top of frame = height of the frame
								set frameWidth to x2 - x1 -->right side of frame - left side of frame = width of the frame
								set frameSquareInchesLong to frameHeight * frameWidth -->multiplying height time width to get square inches
								set frameSquareInches to my roundThis(frameSquareInchesLong, 2) -->making the number round to only 2 decimal points instead of a gazillion
								set inchMarks to {"''"} -->Adding the inch marks in between quotes
								set measurementText to frameSquareInches & inchMarks as string -->Final result followed by the inch marks (example: 3.08")
								
								
								--Creating the text frames that will hold the measurements
								tell page page_name to set displayTextFrame to make text frame with properties {layer:measuringLayer, geometric bounds:{(y1 + "0.05"), (x1 + "0.075"), y2, x2}, stroke color:"None", stroke weight:0}
								
								
								--Inserting the square inches figured into each frame as text
								tell displayTextFrame
									
									--Adding the drop shadow to the text
									apply object style using dropShadowStyle
									
									--Adding the calculated result for square inches in each text frame 
									set contents of insertion point -1 to measurementText
									
								end tell
								
							end repeat -->End of second repeat loop
							
							
							
							
							
						end repeat --> End of repeat with page loop
					end if -->End of if statement

[Jean-Marie Schwartz]

Hi there! I don't use ID hence I don't script ID, but can't address either spread or page? If so, you could target say the last page of spread 2, or page 2 of spread 17. Does this make sense? Another possible way (to me) would be to add the width of the page to the measures so that the new object to be created falls on the right hand page. Are you with me? Then you'd need to test the page number and detect wether you're on a odd or even page. HTH.