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Anonymous
August 2, 2010
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help looping through page items

  • August 2, 2010
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Hello,

I'm new to InDesign scripting and I need a way to programmatically loop through the items on a page of a document and get all of the text frame IDs (Using javascript). Once I find a match of the text frame I am looking for, I will need to update its contents. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

- Lloyd

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Correct answer tomaxxi

Hey!

var myTextFrames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;
var myTextFramesNo = myTextFrames.length;

Now myTextFramesNo holds number of text frames in document and myTextFrames holds text frame objects. Now you can run through text frames and set contents for each of them like this:

myTextFrames[0].contents = "My Frame Contents";

That's for start

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tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

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Inspiring
August 2, 2010

Hey!

var myTextFrames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;
var myTextFramesNo = myTextFrames.length;

Now myTextFramesNo holds number of text frames in document and myTextFrames holds text frame objects. Now you can run through text frames and set contents for each of them like this:

myTextFrames[0].contents = "My Frame Contents";

That's for start

--

tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

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Anonymous
August 2, 2010

Awesome! Thanks, that helps alot!!!

tomaxxi
tomaxxi
Inspiring
August 2, 2010

One more question though. I noticed that text frames that are grouped with a picture frame, doesn't appear in my list of text frames. Do I need to reference the grouped text frames differently? Thanks in advance!

-Lloyd


Hey!

This will find text frames that are in groups, but just first level groups. I think if you have deeper groups, you will have to loop through groups.

var myGroupedText = app.activeDocument.groups.everyItem().textFrames;

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tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

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