how to find size of text in a text frame

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February 7, 2023
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Hi, I am trying to add text to document.

I am creating text frames that are large enough to contain the text that is inserted. Now I would like to get the actual size (number of lines) used. The rowCount variable is always 1, and the geometricBounds and height values describe the text frame as created

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Correct answer Met1

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].lines

(I'm not a scripter so your mileage may vary)

m1b

Community Expert

Just for some extra info about scripting text in Illustrator, please have a look at the TextFrame docs, and maybe have a look at my scripts here and here for some example usage - Mark

Met1Correct answer

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app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].lines

(I'm not a scripter so your mileage may vary)

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birnerseffAuthor

Inspiring

Hi, many thanks, this works fine

Actually, the lines variable is an array, and so lines.length is the actual number of lines

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