Get all anchored objects (CS4 Javascript)

[TᴀW]

Hi,

I'm trying to get all anchored objects in a document. This is what I've come up with:

var myAOs = [];
myItems = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
for (aa=0; aa<myItems.length; aa++){
   if (myItems[aa].parent instanceof Character)  myAOs.push(myItems[aa])
}

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Ariel

[Harbs. · Accepted solution]

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().getElements();

This will get you all anchored page items except ones in tables and footnotes.

For footnotes, you'd add in an extra footnotes.everyItem()

For Tables, I think .pageItems.everyItem() will work, but I'm not positive.

If you need nested tables, you might want to use tables.allPageItems.

Harbs

[TᴀW]

Very nifty!

So now I can just tag on:

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().pageItems.everyItem().fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT)

and hey presto! all anchored objects are reduced to size! Nice and quick, too!

I'm just not entirely clear why the page items of a story are anchored objects, but not the page items of a document?

Thanks,

Ariel