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find anchored object in textframe

Engaged ,
Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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Hi.

 

I have a document with a lot of text frames. Some of them contain an anchored object and some do not. How can I find an anchored object in a text frame and store it in a variable? It (the anchored item) can also be a text frame, a graphic element or a group of different elements.

 

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Community Expert , Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

The following code should work, run it with the textframe selected in which you want to get the anchored frames

var tf = app.selection[0] //If this is your selection
var anchoredFrames = tf.pageItems
alert("The selected textframe has " + anchoredFrames.length + " anchored objects")

-Manan

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Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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The following code should work, run it with the textframe selected in which you want to get the anchored frames

var tf = app.selection[0] //If this is your selection
var anchoredFrames = tf.pageItems
alert("The selected textframe has " + anchoredFrames.length + " anchored objects")

-Manan

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Sep 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021

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Thank you Manan,

Didn't think it was that easy! 🙂

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Sep 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021

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To rephrase what Manan expressed in code:

 

Anchored objects are page items that belong to text.

The parent of an anchored object is a text object; a character.

 

So you can get an array of anchored objects of a story with:

myStory.pageItems.everyItem().getElements()

Or from selected text:

app.selection[0].pageItems.everyItem().getElements()

 

If you want to loop the allPageItems array of the document you could ask every entry of that array if its parent is a character. If that's true for an individual page item you discovered an anchored object and you can store it in a different array if you like.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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Sep 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021

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Thank you for that helpful explanation Uwe!

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