Removing lines of text when placing text with javascript

[hrmcginty]

Hi. I am working on a script hat places articles from text files. The first 4 lines contain information about the service that provides the article.

Is there any method that wiil ignore or remove the first 4 paragraphs when placing the text?

[Trevor:]

Look into BEFORE_PLACE and AFTER_PLACE events

[Ben-Berkadia · Accepted solution]

I would suggest placing the text files and just removing the unnecessary paragraphs (line breaks). Example below which is rather simplistic but hopefully will get you down the right path. Just select the text frames and remove paragraphs by range.

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var myFile = "/c/test/myTxtFile.txt";

var myTxf = doc.pages.item(0).textFrames.item(0);

    myTxf.place(File(myFile));

    myTxf.paragraphs.itemByRange(0,3).remove();

[hrmcginty]

Thanks, that worked like a charm.

[Trevor:]

I must have been very tired when I completely misread your question