I want to break text area with line breaks in it into seperate text lines using return as delineator. for example
I could probably write something but curious if someone already wrote it. I found a few similar ones like
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Divide TextFrame v.2.2 -- CS and up
//>=--------------------------------------
// Divides a multiline text field into separate textFrame objects.
// Basically, each line in the selected text object
// becomes it's own textFrame. Vertical Spacing of each new line is based on leading.
//
// This is the opposite of my "Join TextFrames" scripts which
// takes multiple lines and stitchs them back together into the same object.
// New in 2.1 now right and center justification is kept.
// New in 2.2 better error checking, and now will run on more than one text frame at a time.
//>=--------------------------------------
// JS code (c) copyright: John Wundes ( john@wundes.com ) www.wundes.com
//copyright full text here: http://www.wundes.com/js4ai/copyright.txt
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var doc = activeDocument;
var genError= "DivideTextFrame must be run on a point-text text-frame. ";
var ret_re = new RegExp("/[\x03]|[\f]|[\r\n]|[\r]|[\n]|[,]/");
if(doc){
var docsel = doc.selection;
var sel = [];
//remember initial selection set
for(var itemCt=0, len = docsel.length ;itemCt<len;itemCt++){
if(docsel[itemCt].typename == "TextFrame"){
sel.push(docsel[itemCt]);
}
}
if(sel.length){ //alert(sel.length+" items found.");
for(var itemCt=0, len = sel.length ;itemCt<len;itemCt++){
divide(sel[itemCt]);
}
}else{
alert(genError +"Please select a Text-Frame object. (Try ungrouping.)");
}
}else{
alert(genError + "No document found.");
};
function divide(item){
//get object position
var selWidth = item.width;
if(item.contents.indexOf("\n") != -1){
//alert("This IS already a single line object!");
}else{
//getObject justification
var justification = item.story.textRange.justification;
//make array
var lineArr = fieldToArray(item);
tfTop = item.top;
tfLeft = item.left;
item.contents = lineArr[0];
//for each array item, create a new text line
var tr = item.story.textRange;
var vSpacing = tr.leading;
var newTF;
for(j=1 ; j<lineArr.length ; j++){
newTF = item.duplicate(doc, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
newTF.contents = lineArr;
newTF.top = tfTop - (vSpacing*j);
if(justification == Justification.CENTER)
{
newTF.left = (tfLeft + (selWidth/2)) - (newTF.width/2);
}
else
if(justification == Justification.RIGHT)
{
newTF.left = (tfLeft + selWidth) - newTF.width;
}
else
{
newTF.left = tfLeft;
}
newTF.selected = false;
}
}
function fieldToArray(myField) {
retChars = new Array("\x03","\f","\r","\n");
var tmpTxt = myField.contents.toString();
for (all in retChars )
{
tmpArr = tmpTxt.split(retChars[all]);
}
return tmpTxt.split(ret_re);
}
}
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