Clipping a table in a textframe with pasteInto

Question

Hi,

My use case is to be able to take a table which is inside a text frame and "pasteInto" the same text frame, so that the table clipped to the text frame dimensions.

Here's the code snippets I have got so far:

// Create the table

var myTable = textFrame.insertionPoints[-1].tables.add(...)

// Generic code to check the text frame in which the table is located

var topTextFrame = undefined
for (var i = 0; i < g.doc.textFrames.length; i++) {
var thisTextFrame = g.doc.textFrames[i];
// Check if the text frame's story contains the nestedTextFrame as an anchored object
if (thisTextFrame.textFrames.itemByID(textFrame.id).isValid) {
topTextFrame = thisTextFrame;
break;
}
}

// If we located the topTextFrame, "paste Into" the table back into the same topTextFrame

if (topTextFrame) {

$.writeln("Top text frame found.");

app.select(textFrame);

app.copy();

app.select(NothingEnum.NOTHING);

app.select(topTextFrame);

app.pasteInto(); // At this point, the top level text frame is getting convered to a graphic frame

}

Q1. Is this the right way to do pasteInto for my use case?

Q2. I observe on line app.pasteInto that the text frame is getting converted to a graphics frame. Is this expected and can we have a custom behavior to retain the topTextFrame as a text frame?

Q3. What would be a generic code to identify the graphic frame id and the new table id (since the original myTable is already removed as part of pasteInto)

Thanks,

Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted Answer

@asaxena

You mean red frame is a graphic frame?

If you've a TextFrame - you can only Anchor / InLine other objects - as characters.

@asaxena

In order to achieve what I think you want to achieve - you would've to pasteinto your table into a Rectangle then Anchor / InLine your Rectangle into another TextFrame.

Peter Kahrel · Answer

> take a table which is inside a text frame and "pasteInto" the same text frame, so that the table clipped to the text frame dimensions.

This isn't very clear. Please explain in more detail, with a screenshot of the before and after situations of what you want to achieve.

As to pasteInto, in scripting you'd use duplicate() or move(), thay're more reliable, and you can maintain references. Much more robust than copying and pasting.

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