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Getting location of footnotes

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
August 5, 2025
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Hi, Dear Friends!

Is it possible to get the Y position of the **beginning of the footnote area** of a selected or given text frame?

ChatGPT says it can't be done. But CANT is a four-letter word that is not in my dictionary 🙂

Thank you, and have a good day!
Susan Flamingo

Correct answer rob day

Are you pasting the code into a plain text editor and saving with .jsx extension?

It just shows how you can get the position of any character in a foot note—it assumes there is at least one footnote with text in the front document.

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @SuzzyFlamingo , You can get the ascent line of the footnote’s first character like this:

var fn = app.documents[0].stories[0].footnotes[0].characters[0];
var fny = fn.baseline - fn.ascent;
alert("Ascent line: " + fny) 

SuzzyFlamingoAuthor

Inspiring

This looks like an amazing solution. But i cannot get it to run. I think i am missing the function () part of the syntax. or something. Could i trouble you to post the complete working script?

Thank you so much

SF

rob day

Correct answer

Community Expert

Are you pasting the code into a plain text editor and saving with .jsx extension?

It just shows how you can get the position of any character in a foot note—it assumes there is at least one footnote with text in the front document.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Suzzy,

You can use the Type tool to double-click the word "can't" and then right-click and Add "can't" to User Dictionary.

Mike Witherell

SuzzyFlamingoAuthor

Inspiring

Wow! Never thought about that....

I will continue to hope for a solution/work-around

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