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Anonymous
January 14, 2017
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get the column of a paragraph in multicolumn textframes

  • January 14, 2017
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Hi, I would like to know how to get the current column of a paragraph in a multicolumn textframe.

Given a story myStory formed by several multicolumn textFrames along multiple pages, I can access to its textFrames, columns of the textFrames, and paragraphs and words and lines,... in that order with codes like

var myParagraph = myStory.paragraphs[a];

var myColumn = myStory.parentTextFrames[myframe].textColumns[myColumnIndex];

 

But I dont know in which sub column is a known paragraph or line. I wonder if exists some method or property to get it as the parent, parentTextFrame or parentStory exist for other objects. In my work I want to know if a paragraph is shared between two or more sub columns.

Thanks in advance.

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Jump_Over
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Legend
January 15, 2017

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In my work I want to know if a paragraph is shared between two or more sub columns.

In this case check givenParagraph.textColumns.length

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But I dont know in which sub column is a known paragraph or line. I wonder if exists some method or property to get it as the parent, parentTextFrame or parentStory exist for other objects.

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In this case you may need to calculate it. For example in this way:

(to alert column's number of 1st paragraph of current selection)

var
  arrayOfIndexes = app.selection[0].parentStory.textColumns.everyItem().index,
  searchObject = app.selection[0].paragraphs[0],
  cIndex, step,
  searchIndex = searchObject.textColumns[0].index;
for (step = 0; step < arrayOfIndexes.length; step++) {
  cIndex = arrayOfIndexes[step];
  if (searchIndex == cIndex) {
       alert ("searchObject found in a textColumn number: " + (step+1) );
       break;
       }
  }

Jarek

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Anonymous
January 20, 2017

Thanks very much, Jarek. I´m working with your code.

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