How to duplicate a text item and convert it to paths?

What does 'MyChoice' refer to? I would assume that it is undefined, or it does not contain a TextFrame object as one of it's member properties. You might need to dig deeper to get to the TextFrame if it has one.

Earlier in my script i set "var MyChoice = app.activeDocument.selection;" so it is not undefined. But it seems as if i messed some things up. Sonics code works an i learned that my selection (it IS a TextFrame) is not recognized as a TextFrame until i dig into the darn thing. Sorry, i'm a complete noob.

Moebius

What i have made of it is this:

var mySelection = app.activeDocument.selection;
var Anzahl = mySelection.length;

if (Anzahl ==1) {

for(j = mySelection.length - 1; j >=0; j--){
  if(mySelection.typename == "TextFrame") {
   var Links = mySelection.left;
   var Oben = mySelection.top;
   app.copy();
   app.paste();
   var Kopie = app.activeDocument.selection;
   Kopie.top = Oben;
   Kopie.left = Links;
   Kopie.createOutline();
  }
  else {
   alert("Auswahl ist kein Text!","Fehlermeldung:")
  }
}
}

else {
alert("Bitte nur genau einen Textrahmen auswählen!", "Fehlermeldung:")
}

It makes a nice duplicate of my selected TextFrame, places it at the same coordinates and converts it to outlines.

Thanks to the kind helping in this forum i learned a lot (again) by doing this.

What i plan to do further is to set my copy to left oriented and change its entire content to a single capital "M" so i can conveniently measure the versal-height of the used font.

Maybe i'll come back to this later.

For the time being, thanks a lot for the friendly advice i get here.

It's much appreciated.

moebius

P.s.: I just recognized, that the for-loop is no longer necessary as i make sure, that only one element is selected by the "if (Anzahl ==1)"- Statement.

P.p.s: Just tried the above. Found that this doesn't work. No idea why.

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