Select text boxes with overset text

[Danilo243268172lwz]

Hello,

I was trying to think in a script where is possible to select all text boxes with overset text inside a page and/or in the whole document.

I see there is textFrame.overflows possibility in the script but this only returns true or false. I can't think how to return the boolean in concrete itens.

Any thoughts?
Thank you
Danilo 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Boolean have two values - True or False. 

You can select - manually or from script - ONLY items on the same page / spread - you can't on different spreads. 

Unless you would use my tool - but it's PC only... 

[Danilo243268172lwz]

Hi Robert,

In the case for the whole document, I would like to transform and auto adjust the height only in the top of the text box.

In the case for the page, I would like to select them.

I have Mac, I think the tool won't work then.

Sorry for the confusion.

Best regards

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm not JS guy - but can you specify what do you mean by "auto adjust the height only in the top of the text box"? Top margin? Or the overall height of the TextFrame?

[Danilo243268172lwz]

Hi Robert,

I mean apply the auto size taking the reference point the top center one in the text box:

This is what I would like to apply in the whole document for those text boxes.

For those in the page, I would like only to select them and do other tasks.

Best regards

Danilo

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

OK, do ALL TextFrames are the same? If YES - then you should rather apply ObjectStyle - then you can control all of them at once. 

If not - then use multiple ObjectStyles. 

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

As Robert pointed out, you can select frames only on a single page or spread, so you need two scripts: one to select overset frames on a page and another to apply autosizing to all overset text frames in a document:

// Set Autosizing on overset frames

frames = app.documents[0].textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
  if (frames[i].overflows) {
    frames[i].textFramePreferences.properties = {
      autoSizingReferencePoint: AutoSizingReferenceEnum.TOP_CENTER_POINT,
      autoSizingType: AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_ONLY,
    }
  }
}

// Select overset frames on a page

overset = [];
frames = app.windows[0].activePage.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
  if (frames[i].overflows) {
    overset.push (frames[i]);
  }
}

if (overset.length > 0) {
  app.select (overset)
}

[Danilo243268172lwz]

Hi Peter,

Thank you so much! It works perfectly!

Best regards

Danilo