Thank you Uwe! What a great community this is!
I did a test of your script, and it indeed finds the top and bottom items but if you take a look at all the listed items the order is incorrect.
I have made a brute force script that lists the correct order (reversed from your script, but that can be fixed 😉 )
My test file is attached, with it I get the following results:
Result allPageItems script:
[object Rectangle],[object Group],[object TextFrame],[object Oval],[object Polygon],[object TextFrame],[object Oval],[object TextFrame]
Result Brute force script:
[object TextFrame],[object Oval],[object TextFrame],[object Polygon],[object Group],[object Rectangle]
Regards
Johan
Brute force method:
var myDoc = app.documents[0];
var myPage = myDoc.pages[0];
var arrayToGroup =[];
var myPageItems = myDoc.pageItems.everyItem().getElements();
var decimatedPageItems = myPageItems;
zOrderedItems = [];
for(var mpi=myPageItems.length-1;mpi>=0;mpi--){
findObjectInTheVeryBack(decimatedPageItems,zOrderedItems);
}
function findObjectInTheVeryBack(pageItems,zOrderedItems){
//Brute force method
for (var i = 0 ; i < pageItems.length; i++) {
var theItem = pageItems[i];
theItem.select();
var menuActionBack = app.menuActions.item("$ID/Send to Back");
var notInTheVeryBack = menuActionBack.enabled;
if ( notInTheVeryBack == false){
//remove object from original array and return, add to new array, send to front :O
zOrderedItems.push(theItem);
var menuActionFront = app.menuActions.item("$ID/Bring to Front");
if(menuActionFront.enabled) menuActionFront.invoke();
pageItems.splice(i,1);
return(pageItems,zOrderedItems);
}
}
};
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