Text inset to text using FrameScript

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August 9, 2010
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I need to convert all the text insets in a book to text. The book contains hundreds of files and almost every file has some text insets so converting all the text insets one file at a time is not practical. I know how to use FrameScript to cycle through all the text insets in each file as it moves though the book but I don't know how to convert a text inset to text using FrameScript. Does anyone know a way to do this?

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If you haven't yet tried it, you would undoubtely get good advice on the FS list, here, and possibly links to examples about text insets:

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/framescript-users/

Michael_Müller-Hillebrand

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Dirk,

You don't tell us why you want to do that, this would be interesting.

But for a starter: All text insets have a property called ".Locked" (or similar). You could just unlock all text insets, which at least makes them editable. This feature is not available in the UI.

- Michael

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dirk_olsenAuthor

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I need to do this for archival purposes. We have a lot of files that are created with text insets that may change every year. We need to be able to go back to a previous year and see what the file looked like at that time. By creating a copy of the file and converting all the text insets in the copy we can continue to update the text insets without automatically updating last year’s version.

Michael_Müller-Hillebrand

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Am 09.08.2010 um 21:03 schrieb dirk.olsen:

I need to do this for archival purposes. We have a lot of files that are created with text insets that may change every year. We need to be able to go back to a previous year and see what the file looked like at that time. By creating a copy of the file and converting all the text insets in the copy we can continue to update the text insets without automatically updating last year’s version.

As long as you just have to "look" at previous versions I would suggest to rely on PDF/A files. But I guess you need the option to make minor changes to those old files...

- Michael

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If you haven't yet tried it, you would undoubtely get good advice on the FS list, here, and possibly links to examples about text insets:

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/framescript-users/

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