Create Text Frame and flow table

[karthikS]

Dear Friends,

I need your help "Very urgent"

How to overset text frame (table) content flow to next text frame? The next frame need to create.

Before

After - I need

Please suggest Friends

Thanks in Advance

KS

[karthikS]

Dear Friend

Please any one replay my above question?

Thanks in Advance

KS

[Kai Rübsamen]

KS, since this is a special task and since this take longer than 5 minutes, you should pay someone, if this is urgent needed.

No matter how, not everything is clear. So where is your idml-example? What did you try before? Where is your code snippet? Select table or table frame by hand? Frame fitting? Only one frame on the right, that must get new bounds or 50 frames in 20 documents …

So, a lot of questions. Maybe not a good place for a forum!

Kai

[karthikS]

Hi Kai,

Thanks to your replay! Ok i understand that.

I need one suggest only. How to link text frame to text frame (Overset text frame with empty text frame).

Thanks in Advance

KS

[TᴀW]

To link text frames, use the previousTextFrame property of a text frame.

So, if you want to link frame 2 to frame 1, do this:

frame2.previousTextFrame = frame1;

HTH,

Ariel

[karthikS]

Hi Ariel,

First Thanks to your nice replay. My code is below i am going way is right?

var frame1 = app.selection[0].textFrames[0];

var myTextFrame = app.activeDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();

var frame2 = myTextFrame.geometricBounds = [50, 50, 560, 560];

frame2.previousTextFrame = frame1;

Please guide me Friend

Thanks in advance

KS

[karthikS]

Screenshot below

One More Thanks

[Kai Rübsamen · Accepted solution]

If you select a textframe, you have a textframe already. So if you choose app.selection[0].textFrames[0], this means a anchored textframe inside a textframe.

And: You try to create your textframe on page 1. But you must add the new textframe on the page that followed the page of your selection.

So try this one:

var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
var frame1 = app.selection[0];
var parPage = frame1.parentPage.documentOffset;
var frame2 = curDoc.pages[parPage+1].textFrames.add({geometricBounds: [50, 50, 100,100]});
frame2.previousTextFrame = frame1;

[karthikS]

Hi Kai,

Thanks you so mach!

Your coding working fine.

One more thanks

KS

[TᴀW]

That's basically correct, but you're creating an unnecessary variable. Try this:

var frame1 = app.selection[0].textFrames[0];

var frame2 = app.activeDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();

frame2.geometricBounds = [50, 50, 560, 560];

frame2.previousTextFrame = frame1;

Now, if you want to link the text frame with the table to the big empty text frame, you'll have to get a reference to those 2 frames somehow. That depends on how they were created, but the basic principle is shown in the code above.

Ariel