How to get TextRange position. Like get RasterItem position

[蒙福5E82]

Is there any way to get postion in TextRange?

Javascript best. Thank you.

[Charu Rajput]

Hello,

What do you mean by position of TextRange.

Is that x and y coordinates of the text range?  

[蒙福5E82]

position is

like https://illustrator-scripting-guide.readthedocs.io/jsobjref/RasterItem/#rasteritem-position api

how to get 'de' position or order character

[femkeblanco]

If you expand and ungroup text, characters become compound paths which have positions. Otherwise I think it's ill-advised to think about x and y positions of characters while they're part of text.

[蒙福5E82]

How to expand and ungroup text, i want to try it. Thank you very much.

[Charu Rajput · Accepted solution]

Here is the video where you can see how to expand and ungroup

https://www.dropbox.com/s/92qo7bvujgn7utv/Screen%20Recording%202021-02-11%20at%204.44.02%20PM.mov?dl... 

For scripting you can use after selecting the textframe.

app.executeMenuCommand('Expand3');
app.executeMenuCommand('ungroup');

[蒙福5E82]

Great,Thanks for your video.