direction: Find out size of image block

The direction function allows you to know if an uploaded image is vertical meaning portrait or landscape (horizontal) or square so that you can change the shape of your image block so that the uploaded image fits properly.

This function is used inside values for commands (like paragraph or filename) to return whether the uploaded image is vertical, horizontal or square.

Syntax:

!direction path to image or {BlockName} direction!

Returns:

vertical, horizontal or square

Example:

Block 1

Block Name: Logo

Block Type: Image

Custom Commands:

status: noprint

Block 2

Block Name: PlaceLogo

Block Type: Image

Custom Commands:

status: hide

filename: {Logo}

optlist:

!!if "!direction {Logo} direction!"="vertical"%%rect={0.41 0.68 2.98 5.12}%%rect={0.41 2.90 7.96 5.12}!!

IMPORTANT: rect dimensions in optlist are in inches (they can be copied and pasted from PDFLib plugin as is)

So figure out how the rectangle should look by creating those blocks and take the coordinates and put them into the optlist if statement.