Table inside text frame

Question

Hello, I would like to extract table by table and place it within a text frame and then adjust the frame to the content and paste it back in its original place to finally apply an object style to it.

	app.selection.length > 0
	app.cut()
	app.paste()
	app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].select();
	app.selection[0].fit (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);
	app.cut()

finally I would have to paste it in its place of origin

Can anyone please help me here? I'm trying to learn scripting but some of these things still confuse me. Thanks.

Manan Joshi · Accepted Answer

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLkroEK_0z5Oq4hJtyXe-E61FAhitrOZ/view

Hi Manan, this is an example, in the second table the script works fine but in the first one it shows me an error because when executing the script after the paste of the table it shows me the overflowed text frame because the table is bigger than the text frame.

Apparently on line 7

app.selection [0] .parentTextFrames [0] .select ();

does not allow you to select overflowed text frames.

In the script it ignores the object style.

Hi Franz,

Try the following line in place of the one with error

app.selection[0].parentStory.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames[0].select();

-Manan

Manan Joshi · Answer

Hi Franz,Something like the following should workvar origTable = app.selection[0]if(origTable.constructor.name == "Table"){     var origIp = origTable.storyOffset     app.cut()      app.paste()       app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].select();     app.selection[0].fit (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);     app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.objectStyles.itemByName("OS1")) //Change OS1 to name of your Object Style     app.cut()     app.select(origIp)     app.paste()}This code will work when the selection is a table.-Manan

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