Editting CopyCutter to break at hard returns?

Hi Cody,

as I can see from the code, the script CopyCutter 2 Jongware digged out in reply 9 will not fit your needs presented in reply 4.

Hi Jongware,

just tested your CopyCutter 2 script on a simple text frame with InDesign CS6, also CS5.5.

It is working—every single line is cut, but the second line is at a wrong vertical position.
All consecutive lines are ok if you see the relative distance to line two.

From left to right:

1. Original text frame

2. Script result on a duplicate of the frame showing the problem with the vertical positions.

3. The relative vertical distance from frame two to all the frames following is perfect.

Not so the distance from frame 1 to frame 2.

Depending what one likes to do with the single text frames after running the script this little flaw might be not relevant.

I did not look closer to the code why the shift happens.

But I would suggest, that before doing the dups of the lines

1. All baseline values of the original text frame could be read out

2. The text frames could be moved according to differences found in the old and new values of baseline

Fixed version CopyCutter 2.1 plus global undo added:

/**
* @@@BUILDINFO@@@ CopyCutter2.1-SELECTED-TEXTFRAME.jsx !Version! Tue Feb 28 2017 09:16:09 GMT+0100
*/
/*
    CopyCutter 2.1 | Fixed version by Uwe Laubender [UL]
    Tested with CS5.5 and CS6
   
     FIXED : The second cut out text frame is on wrong vertical position.
                    All consecutive ones as well.
   
    Original code by:
    // Jongware, 3-Jun-2010
    posted at Adobe InDesign Forum by Jongware:
   
    9. Re: Editting CopyCutter to break at hard returns?
    [Jongware] Feb 27, 2017 11:05 PM (in response to codyhsmdr)
    https://forums.adobe.com/message/9359833#9359833
*/
//DESCRIPTION:CopyCutter 2.1 — Cut your Copy into Slivers | SELECTED TEXT FRAME
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;
// [UL] Undo for all the script action in one go:
app.doScript
    (
   
    runCopyCutterOnTextFrame,
    ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,
    [],
    UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,
    "Run CopyCutter 2.1 on Text Frame | SCRIPT"
   
    );
function runCopyCutterOnTextFrame()
{
    if (app.selection.length == 1 && app.selection[0] instanceof TextFrame) 
    { 
       
        var f = app.selection[0];
       
        // [UL] Some new vars we need for fixing a problem:
        var doc = app.documents[0];
        var allBaseLines = f.lines.everyItem().baseline;
        var newFramesIDs = [];
       
       
        for (i=0; i<f.lines.length; i++) 
        { 
            var newf = f.duplicate(); 
            newf.texts[0].remove(); 
            f.lines.duplicate (LocationOptions.BEFORE,newf.lines[0]); 
            if (i > 0)
            var top = f.lines[i-1].baseline; 
            else 
            var top = f.geometricBounds[0]; 
            var bot = f.lines.baseline; 
            newf.geometricBounds = [ top, f.geometricBounds[1], bot, f.geometricBounds[3] ];
           
            // [UL] Store the id of the new frame:
            newFramesIDs[newFramesIDs.length++] = newf.id;
        };
   
        // [UL] Move to original position comparing old with new baseline values.
        // [UL] Will NOT work if text is aligned to any baseline grid.
       
        for(var n=0;n<allBaseLines.length;n++)
        {
            var newf = doc.pageItems.itemByID(newFramesIDs).getElements()[0];
            var currentBaseline = newf.lines[0].baseline;
            newf.move( undefined , [0 ,  allBaseLines - currentBaseline ]);
        }
   
        f.remove(); 
    }
}

Regards,
Uwe