InDesign scripting question re page numbers

[deckarduk]

Hi everyone,

Please can someone helpo me...

I have a grep find set up in a script and all works fine.

Just wondered if it's possible to get the page number of each instance returned by the grep find?

Thanks in advance.

[brianp311 · Accepted solution]

Grep find typically returns a Text object. From there, you can get myFind.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage. Note that if the item is on the pasteboard, parentPage is null. Or if it extends across multiple text frames those frames might be on different pages. 

[deckarduk]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the help, I'll give that a go 👍

[m1b]

For an example implementation of what @brianp311 described, see this post (search for "function textPage").

- Mark

[deckarduk]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the help, the linked discussion looks good 👍