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How do I rename a text box in Illustrator with a JS script? (CS4)

New Here ,
Jul 19, 2021 Jul 19, 2021

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Sorry I'm super new to this, I can't figure out how to rename a text box. I have a function that's supposed to take in a text box object and resize it to fit the text inside. I would want it to keep the same text box, but the way the function works now it makes a new one that's the right size. That's ok, but I want it to keep the same name so I can refer to the same textbox in future executions of the script, with like docRef.textFrames.getByName("myTextboxName"); (probably not the right way to do this but it's what I could figure out). However, I can't figure out how to rename the thing, it always leaves it unnamed after the function runs. I can change the text in the text box using newObj.parent.textRange.contents = "myText"; but trying to assign a title with like newObj.parent.textRange.name doesn't work.

function resizeTextBox(obj) { // Got the code for this function from http://kelsocartography.com/scripts/scripts/nvkelso/FitToTextContent_v2.jsx
var includeExtraLines = 0.5;
objTop = obj.top;
objLeft = obj.left;

// Make the new point type object and locate it
// Make sure the new object is in the same Z stacking order as the original
copy1 = obj.duplicate(obj, ElementPlacement.PLACEBEFORE);
//copy1.move(obj, ElementPlacement.PLACEBEFORE);

// now make the text box much bigger, but not absurdly big
if( copy1.height * 10 < 2000 ) {
copy1.textPath.height = copy1.height * 10;
} else {
copy1.textPath.height = 2000;
}

howManyLines = copy1.lines.length;

outlineObject = copy1.duplicate();
outlineObject = outlineObject.createOutline();

targetHeight = outlineObject.height + includeExtraLines * (outlineObject.height / howManyLines );

// Now assign y-axis depth of the point text to the area text box
rect = obj.parent.pathItems.rectangle(copy1.textPath.top, copy1.textPath.left, obj.width, targetHeight);
copy2 = obj.parent.textFrames.areaText(rect);
copy2.selected = true;
rect.selected = true;

// Always delete these intermediate objects
outlineObject.remove();
copy1.remove();

// Now take care of the end and original objects
newObj = obj.textRange.duplicate(copy2);
obj.remove();

//NEED TO RENAME HERE
}


Thanks so much, and sorry for the noob question. I'm using an old version of Illustrator if that changes anything (CS4).

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Jul 20, 2021 Jul 20, 2021

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I'm not sure what the script does but after deleting the original selection and the copies the resulting text frame is copy2, 

 

place this at the end of your script

copy2.contents = "myText";
copy2.name = "newObjName";

 

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Jul 20, 2021 Jul 20, 2021

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The script fits the height of a text frame to the text contents. 

 

To keep the name of "obj", assign it to a variable as the first line in the function definition:

var name1 = obj.name;

 

Then assign that variable to the name of "copy2" as the last line in the function definition(like Carlos said):

copy2.name = name1;

 

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Jul 21, 2021 Jul 21, 2021

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that worked, thanks so much

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