Setting Table Border in Mircrosoft Word using AppleScript - ms-word

When I try to set the line thickness of a table border, the result changes the line type to something undesired. Why is the line width parameter affecting the line style parameter? See the examples below and try them for yourself. I am using MS Office 2011 Word v14.2.3.
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set line style of (get border selection which border border bottom) to line width225 point
get line width of (get border selection which border border bottom)--test:results in line width150. Why? I just set it to line width225!
--width25 = fine dots
--width225 = cornered sine wave
--width50 = dashed line
--width75 = dash + 3 dots + dash
--width100 = 3 lines
--width150 = 2 lines
--width300 = single
--width450 = does not work
--width600 = does not work
end tell
If I run this on a table which has the settings that I want, in order to see what they are:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
get properties of (get border selection which border border bottom)
end tell
I get:
{class:border, visible:true, color index:no highlight, inside:false, line style:line style single, line width:line width225 point, art style:missing value, art width:missing value, color:{0, 0, 0}, color theme index:no theme color}
Which is correct. I should be able to copy those parameters to make my script work, but something happens when I try to set the line width (border thickness).

If you want to change the line thickness, use line width instead of line style, otherwise it's normal that it doesn't do what you expect.
set line width of (get border selection which border border bottom) to line width225 point
If you want to change the line style, you should use a value from this list : (
line style none, line style single, line style dot, line style dash small gap, and many more ...)

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For example:
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The output is correct:
Some text at the beginning of the paragraph that is this long
Second type of text
Some longer text that is on later on in the paragraph
I have changed the line spacing to slightly increase the gaps between lines but can’t change the height of the empty line. I want the line break to be approximately half the size of a normal line break. I tried after/before paragraph settings but can’t get an empty line to be half the size.
Any idea if this is possible and what is the best way to achieve this through storyboard or programmatically.
----- Edit:
This is what I tried:
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
paragraphStyle.paragraphSpacing = 0.1
paragraphStyle.paragraphSpacingBefore = 0.1
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how to let long text change to multiple lines when adding annotation to images

how to let long text change to multiple lines when adding annotation to image
and make the length of each line are equal, like rectangle?
image temp:=getfrontimage()
temp.ShowImage()
imageDisplay disp = front.ImageGetImageDisplay(0)
getsize(temp,x,y)
le=x*2/3
to1=y*80/100
component text1 = NewTextAnnotation(le,to1,string1+","+string2+","+string3,100)
I tried to add 3 strings to an image, each string has more than 15 letters/characters, Total more than 50 letters.
If I put all 3 strings in one text annotation in on line, it is too long.
If I put them as 3 text annotations, as the each line does not have exactly same numbers of letters, it shows ugly.
Is there any could let the text as multiple line, and the background of texts in each line has the same length?
Or the 3 text annotations has the same length, I mean the background of the texts has the same length, when the letters in each text annotations are not same, for example, 1st text annotation with 16 letters, 2nd text annotation with 20 letters, 3rd text annotation with 14 letters, but their background of the text have the same length.
Thanks,
You can add line-breaks as with all strings by simply adding the line-break escape string \n.
Example script:
number sx = 512
number sy = 512
image img := RealImage("test",4,sx,sy)
img = icol
img.ShowImage()
imageDisplay disp = img.ImageGetImageDisplay(0)
number l = sx * 2/3
number t = sy * 80/100
String mLstr = "Some text line\nSome more text lines\nShort text"
number fontSize = 12
Component Line = disp.NewTextAnnotation(l,t,mLstr,fontSize)
Line.TextAnnotationSetAlignment(1) // 1=Left, 2=Center, 3=Right
Line.ComponentSetDrawingMode(1) // 1=with background, 2=without background
Line.ComponentSetBackgroundColor(0.5,0.0,0)
Line.ComponentSetForegroundColor(0,1,0)
disp.ComponentAddChildAtEnd(line)
A note: When creating the new component, there are two different variants of the NewTextAnnotation command:
Component NewTextAnnotation( Component ref_par_comp, Number left, Number top, String text, Number size )
Component NewTextAnnotation( Number left, Number top, String text, Number size )
The first one takes the addtional "parent" component. If you use that one, then the font-size will scale with the default display-size of the parent component on the screen, i.e. will not be different for differently sizes images.
To test: Just try the above script with sx and sy values. Then do the same without the disp. in the line-annotation creating line.

In mixed chart containing bars and a line, how to extend the line outside of the chart in both directions?

I have this chart, which has line and bars:
Is it possible to somehow extend the line outside of the chart in both directions? This line serves an important role, it is sort of a "limit" for bars, I just don't want for it to start at the center of the first bar, and to end at the center of the final bar.
I can extend it to the right by simply extending the dataset of the line, but is it possible to extend it also to the left somehow?
I figured out answer based on answer from this question: Is it able to align line chart at left margin in mixed chart?
I'm extending line type like this:
Chart.controllers.LineNoOffset = Chart.controllers.line.extend({
updateElement: function(point, index, reset) {
Chart.controllers.line.prototype.updateElement.call(this, point, index, reset);
const meta = this.getMeta();
const xScale = this.getScaleForId(meta.xAxisID);
point._model.x = xScale.getPixelForValue(undefined, index-0.5);
},
});
Now the LineNoOffset type of the line will start from the left border of the chart, which fulfills my need.

Trying to align text in center of rectangle while drawing freeText annotation but text goes in top left corner

I am trying to free text Annotation string align in center of rectangle but always set in top left corner
PdfContentByte pcb = stamper.getOverContent(page);
PdfAnnotation annotation = PdfAnnotation.createFreeText(stamper.getWriter(), rectangle, "Mayank Pandey", pcb);
annotation.put(PdfName.Q, new PdfNumber(PdfFormField.Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE));
Text showing left top corner in pdf:
You set
annotation.put(PdfName.Q, new PdfNumber(PdfFormField.Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE));
The constant Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE is defined as
/**
* A possible value for vertical alignment.
*/
public static final int ALIGN_MIDDLE = 5;
But the value of Q in free text annotations is specified as:
Q
integer
(Optional; PDF 1.4) A code specifying the form of quadding (justification) that shall be used in displaying the annotation’s text:
0 Left-justified
1 Centered
2 Right-justified
Default value: 0 (left-justified).
Thus, value 5 you used is not a valid Quadding value at all!
Furthermore, FreeText Quadding does not even support what you want to achieve, to align in center of rectangle, it only allows to select horizontal alignment, not vertical alignment.
For your objective, therefore, you'll have to use a custom appearance (which takes precedence if present).

How to display text in center if use verticalText?

My code
VerticalText vt = new VerticalText(writer.getDirectContent());
vt.setVerticalLayout(marginLeft + squareHeight, 1191.0f - marginTop, squareHeight, 3, 20);
vt.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph(imgr.getText(), fontV);
p.setLeading(10);
vt.addText(p);
vt.go();
The result : Text is middle in vertical mode.
I want to display text is center in horizontal mode as below link:
How to solve this problem ?
As documented, left, center and right align has a different meaning in the context of VerticalText. Left is top, center is middle and right is bottom.
With class VerticalText, you always write from right to left. There is currently no way to align the text as shown in the screen shot to the right.
However, you could work around this problem by adding the vertical text in simulation mode first and then calculate the number of lines that have been written.
See for instance the VerticalText1 example from my book. I have adapted the code of that example like this:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(
"KozMinPro-Regular", "UniJIS-UCS2-V", BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(bf, 20);
VerticalText vt = new VerticalText(writer.getDirectContent());
vt.setVerticalLayout(390, 570, 540, 12, 30);
vt.addText(new Chunk(MOVIE, font));
vt.go();
System.out.println(vt.getMaxLines());
vt.addText(new Phrase(TEXT1, font));
vt.go();
System.out.println(vt.getMaxLines());
vt.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
vt.addText(new Phrase(TEXT2, font));
vt.go();
System.out.println(vt.getMaxLines());
The output of the System.out calls is:
11
4
1
These numbers are the number of lines that are available after each go().
We start with 12 lines as defined in the setVerticalLayout() method.
We add MOVIE and there are 11 lines left. We've defined a leading of 30, which means we've already consumed (12 - 11) x 30pt = 30pt.
Then we add TEXT1 which is distributed over 7 lines, which take 7 * 30pt in width. In total we now have consumed (12 - 4) x 30pt = 240pt.
Finally we add TEXT2 which is distributed over 3 lines. Only 1 line is left. The total horizontal width of all the text is 330pt (we had only 30pt left).
Now that you know this math, you can execute the go() method in simulation mode, calculate the width that was consumed and use that info to add your text for real at the desired position.