Split TextFrame Lines

[Jean_Demonceau-qOKC0y]

Hi,

I need to get the position of all texts of an Illustrator document.

It's pretty easy for single lines because I have the position of TextFrame

For each tf in docRef.TextFrames

     position = tf.Position

Next

But if the TextFrame has multiple lines, I really don't know how to do.

For each tf in docRef.TextFrames

     For each line in tf.Lines               'line is a TextRange

     ????

     Next

Next

There isn't the "Position" property for TextRange objects...

I wonder if the best way would be to split/demerge lines of a TextRange into separated TextRange so I would be able to know the position of them.

But is it possible to do this ? how ? or is there another solution ?

I saw on the Internet a script to merge separated TextFrame into a single one but I would like to do the opposite...

Here is the link of the merging : http://indesignsecrets.com/merging-multiple-text-frames-into-one.php

Help 🙂

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

Hi Jean, there is a script to split multiline textFrames into single line textFrames, made by Wundes. But there's no need to do that...

in a 3 line textFrame

- the 1st line's position = textFrame position

- the 2nd line's position = textFrame position - Leading

- the 3rd line's position = textFrame position - Leading * 2

in the following VBA snip I did split the text and wrote the position of the lines on single frames, but you can get the position directly without splitting

    Set txtFrame = Idoc.Selection(0)

    txtLeading = txtFrame.Story.TextRange.CharacterAttributes.Leading

    For i = 1 To txtFrame.Lines.Count

        Set txtline = Idoc.TextFrames.Add

        txtFrame.Lines(i).Duplicate txtline, 1

        txtline.Position = txtFrame.Position

        txtline.Top = txtline.Top - txtLeading * (i - 1)

        txtline.Left = txtFrame.Left - txtFrame.Width

        txtline.Contents = "Y = " & txtline.Top

    Next

[Jean_Demonceau-qOKC0y]

Hi,

Pretty cool !

I would never thought to do this like that.

Very helpful thank you !