Insert image into selected frame

[robertjiang77]

Hi Lohrrialo,

I need to insert an image (png/jpg) into a frame. But I am struggling with how to read the image in. Could you kindly review the below code and show me a way to fix it?

app = win32com.client.Dispatch('InDesign.Application.CC.2019')
myInddFile = r'C:\Users\zhijia\Documents\Robertjiang\Tracker\In-Design Project\Tracker Template_test_old.indd'
myDocument = app.Open(myInddFile)
myPage = myDocument.Pages.Item(1)

myRectangle = myPage.Rectangles.Add()
myRectangle.GeometricBounds = ["6p", "6p", "18p", "18p"]
myRectangle.StrokeWeight = 0
myRectangle.place('C:\Users\zhijia\Documents\Robertjiang\Tracker\In-Design Project\AA.jpg'')

The problem occurred at the end line of the above code.
What I need is to

1. place a picture into the rectangle frame
2. and then fit content to frame.

Could you kindly teach me how to achieve both in python please?

Great thanks!

[robertjiang77]

Hi Lohrii, could you kindly show me how to solve the problem? I tried to read in the image by Plotly but the place function doesn't work. Should I use the PlaceIntoFrame function? Please help, thanks!

[lohriialo]

@robertjiang77 the place method should start with an upper case myRectangle.Place()
See, scripting reference line #64592

[lohriialo]

And to fit content to frame

idContentToFrame = 1668575078   # from enum idFitOptions
myRectangle.Fit(idContentToFrame)

See, scripting reference line #802