Hide all text layers in document

[Chris201Chris]

Is it possible to hide all text layers in a multi-page document (so I can export a copy with only the pictures)?

[jmlevy]

Yes, of course. Just untick the eye icon in the layers panel. If you want to hide all the layers except one, alt click on the one you want to keep visible.

[Chris201Chris]

Is it a way to do it at multiple pages as once (I have a 200-page document where I if possible would like to be able to toggle all text on/off with a button)?

[jmlevy]

Layers are not page related, so you don't have to worry about this.

[Mike Bro]

Hello,

Do you have separate text layers for each page? if so, that's not necessary, I would merge all the text layers into one singe text layer then you would only have one to toggle off when you want to export.

Regards,

Mike

[rob day]

If you have made a layer in the Layers panel and all of your text frames throughout the document are on that layer, hiding it would hide all of the text frames. It sounds like you want to hide any page item that is a text frame? I think you would need a script for that.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

This would hide all of the text frames in a document:

var api=app.activeDocument.allPageItems;  
var i = api.length; while (i--) if (api[i].constructor.name == "TextFrame") api[i].visible = false;

This would show them:

var api=app.activeDocument.allPageItems;  
var i = api.length; while (i--) if (api[i].constructor.name == "TextFrame") api[i].visible = true;

[Chris201Chris]

Thanks! I have to figure out how to use scripts (should be possible 🙂 - this will do the trick.

I have also learned that an alternative (or complement) is to put all textframes into a separate layer ("Text"). It is a way to do this as well using a script (so I can fix my files retroactively without having to go thru each single page)?

[rob day]

Here’s the script with a checkbox you can toggle:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/db74af04-3e4a-4655-6f06-8071123fe832

When you run it you’ll get a checkbox dialog:

If you have anchored objects in the text they will get hidden with the text

[Chris201Chris]

Super, many thanks (to all of you) for great help!

[Mike Bro]

Hello,

Re: I have also learned that an alternative (or complement) is to put all textframes into a separate layer ("Text"). It is a way to do this as well using a script (so I can fix my files retroactively without having to go thru each single page)?

Give the below script a try. Playing off Robs code, I have it moving all the all textframes into one separate layer "Text" then removeing the empty layers.

var api=app.activeDocument.allPageItems;  
var i = api.length; while (i--) if (api[i].constructor.name == "TextFrame")
api[i].locked = false;

app.activeDocument.layers.everyItem().locked = false;
    
    for(var i=0;i<api.length;i++){
      try{var myLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.add ({name: "Text"});}catch(e){}         
        api[i].itemLayer =  "Text";

        }
        Array.prototype.filter = function(collection) {  
            var k, i, con, ids = collection.everyItem().id;  
            con: for (k = ids.length - 1; k >=0; k--)     
            for (i = 0; i < this.length; i++)  
            if (this[i].id == ids[k]){  
            ids.splice(k, 1);   
            continue con;  
            }  
            return ids; 
            }  

        var mL = app.activeDocument.pageItems.everyItem().itemLayer,  
        mUnusedLayersID = mL.filter(app.activeDocument.layers),  
        len = mUnusedLayersID.length;  
        while (len-->0)  
        app.activeDocument.layers.itemByID(mUnusedLayersID[len]).remove();

Rrgards,

Mike

[rob day]

Hi Mike, I don’t think that will work if a text frame is in a group.