Getting location of footnotes

[SuzzyFlamingo]

Hi, Dear Friends!

Is it possible to get the Y position of the **beginning of the footnote area** of a selected or given text frame?

ChatGPT says it can't be done. But CANT is a four-letter word that is not in my dictionary 🙂

Thank you, and have a good day!
Susan Flamingo

[Mike Witherell · Accepted solution]

Suzzy,

You can use the Type tool to double-click the word "can't" and then right-click and Add "can't" to User Dictionary.

[SuzzyFlamingo]

Wow! Never thought about that....

I will continue to hope for a solution/work-around

[rob day]

Hi @SuzzyFlamingo , You can get the ascent line of the footnote’s first character like this:

var fn = app.documents[0].stories[0].footnotes[0].characters[0];
var fny = fn.baseline - fn.ascent;
alert("Ascent line: " + fny)

[SuzzyFlamingo]

This looks like an amazing solution. But i cannot get it to run. I think i am missing the function () part of the syntax. or something. Could i trouble you to post the complete working script?

Thank you so much

SF

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Are you pasting the code into a plain text editor and saving with .jsx extension?

It just shows how you can get the position of any character in a foot note—it assumes there is at least one footnote with text in the front document.

[SuzzyFlamingo]

All of the suddon it is working. thank you

[Peter Kahrel]

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