graphic line

[John_devs]

Dear all,

   How to draw a graphic line above a specific text frame in Adobe InDesign using scripting

Thanks in advance

[janh24813240]

Hi John_devs!
I think you need to explain the user case a little more in detail so we can give you a hand.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @John_devs , Select a text frame and try this:

app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
var tf = app.documents[0].selection[0];
var b = tf.geometricBounds;
var p = tf.parentPage;
var g = 5;//gap above frame in points
p.graphicLines.add({geometricBounds: [b[0]-g, b[1], b[0]-g, b[3]], strokeColor:"Black", strokeWeight:1});

app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = AutoEnum.AUTO_VALUE;

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[John_devs]

Thanks a lot it helped so much.

i need one more assisstance:

i need to draw graphiclines to a particularaly one textframe in each page when i run the script 

[Robert Tkaczyk]

How script should know which TextFrame? 

[Willi Adelberger]

Why do you want to script it, use paragraph styles. 

[Loic.Aigon]

or script those but indeed.