Sorting of images based on their position on the page

How would I go about sorting the images based on their position on the page? I've read a few articles which mention the use of table method fate and checking their x and y values to sort the table. While that works on the page elements that are perfectly aligned with their x and is the axis, it fails on a layout like this. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could create an individual table for line1, line2, Row3 etc based on his position there and then sort them based on their position X and then create the master table combining them in order?

I'm new to javascript, so it's a bit out of my League. Any help will be much appreciated.

Hi again,

I found an idea that seems promising to deal with the issues mentioned above. The main problem, as you have no doubt noticed, is that we cannot simply count about to coordinates (x, y) 'as they are', even after having rounded values, to extract implied rows and columns.

When we look at the layout below:

our eyes instantly detect what he expected to be 3 columns and 5 rows, but this underlying order is not immediately accessible from all sort all of the coordinates. We need to improve the algorithm.

What I propose is to speculate about the gaps that occur on the ordered sequence of coordinates x and y, respectively. To reveal these gaps, we will first sort the data along the x-axis:

The figure above shows that the width of the rectangles. Each arrow represents a rectangle, and I ordered the elements by increasing x-centers. We can estimate that the element identified #1 belongs to a new group of this simple fact: its left coordinate (red mark) is higher than the coordinated right (blue guide) of the #0element. This observation will give us a strategy to identify gaps in the column.

Then, the same method is applied to detect the lines. (Sort by values y, identify gaps, based on the progress of the min - max).

At the end of this process, each object has a (column, row) coordinate pair instead of fragmented values (x, y) . So, we can calculate the final order, i.e. the weight of the comparison function.

Here is my implementation of this algorithm:

// ========================================================
// Up2Bottom and Left2Right Sorting Algorithm
//   addressing (weakly) sparse rectangles
// ---
// Usage:  Select the objects, then run the script
// Target: InDesign CS4/CS5/CS6/CC
// ========================================================

const CS = +CoordinateSpaces.SPREAD_COORDINATES,
      AP_MIN = +AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR,
      AP_CENTER = +AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR,
      AP_MAX = +AnchorPoint.BOTTOM_RIGHT_ANCHOR;

var sel = app.properties.selection || null,
    data = [],
    r, i, j, k, t, n, w, vMax;

if( sel && 1 < (n=sel.length) )
    {
    // Collect coordinates and IDs
    // --> {min:[xLeft, yTop], weight:[x,y], max:[xRight,yBottom], id}[]
    for(i=0 ; i < n && (t=sel[i]) ; ++i )
        {
        data[i] = {
            min:    t.resolve(AP_MIN,CS)[0],
            weight: t.resolve(AP_CENTER,CS)[0],
            max:    t.resolve(AP_MAX,CS)[0],
            id:      t.id
            };
        }

    // Find rows and columns [i.e. y-weights and x-weights]
    // ---
    for( j=0 ; j < 2 ; ++j )
        {
        // Sort by center coordinate
        // ---
        data.sort(function(a,b){return a.weight[j] - b.weight[j]});

        // min > max ==> w++
        // ---
        for(vMax=(t=data[0]).max[j], t.weight[j]=(w=0), i=1 ; (i < n)&&(t=data[i]) ; ++i )
            {
            if( t.min[j] > vMax ){ ++w; vMax=t.max[j]; }
            t.weight[j] = w;
            }
        }

    // Compute final weights, clean up data, create ID-to-weight access
    // ---
    for( i=0 ; (i < n)&&(t=data[i]) ; ++i )
        {
        w = n*t.weight[1] + t.weight[0];  // final weight (y first)
        k = '_'+t.id;                     // ID key

        (t.min.length=0)||(t.weight.length=0)||(t.max.length=0);
        delete t.min; delete t.weight; delete t.max; delete t.id;
        delete data[i];

        data[k] = w;                      // ID-to-weight
        }

    // Apply sort --> r
    // ---
    r = sel.sort(function(a,b){return data['_'+a.id]-data['_'+b.id];});

    // Show the resulting order
    // ---
    for( i=0 ; i < n ; ++i )
        {
        app.select(r[i]);
        $.sleep(1000);
        }
    }

Marc

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