Document textframe count

[MonishaRajendran]

Hi professionals,

I have used this code to find the textframe count but it shows an script error. Please guide me

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myText= 0;
for (var i = 0; myDoc.stories.length > i; i++)
myText += myDoc.textFrames[i].texts.length
alert("Document contains " + myText + " textframe.");

[Manan Joshi]

This code to me seems to be incoherent. Why do you iterate stories and then check the text length and conclude that it would be the frame count. Try to find answers to the following question

• Is there a one to one relation between stories and textframes?
• How is a textframe related to the text object
• Isn't the a more simpler way to get the textframe count, some inbuilt collections that you could use. Search the DOM documentation

--Manan

[lfcorullon · Accepted solution]

Try

alert(app.activeDocument.textFrames.length);

This will count all text frames, including the ones placed in any master page. 

[Thiru5CD0]

You tell correct. but it come anchore or inline text frame then it not countable.

Thanks,

[Laubender]

Hi Thiru5CD0,

if you want to count or access all text frames in the document you have to loop all textContainers arrays of all stories in the document and filter out the text paths that are also text containers.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )