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From: Ola_Khrapatin
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:34
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:34
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Hi there,
I got a long document which has many pages with the following structure:
a text frame,within it has another frame, and this later frame contains text frames and objects. In other words: a frame inside a frame inside a frame.
I need to write a script which would extract all of the inner frames, and paste them on the exact same coordinates, but as independant frames.
So I wrote the following code:
myStories = app.activeDocument.stories;
for (i=0; i<myStories.length; i++) { myStory = myStories[i]; myFrames = myStory.textFrames; for (j=0; j<myFrames.length; j++) { myFrame = myFrames[j]; coord = [myFrame.geometricBounds[0], myFrame.geometricBounds[1]]; myFrame.select(); app.cut(); app.paste(coord); } }
Now, it seemed very nice in theory, but produces an error when running. The problem seems to be that InDesign think a story of a single text frame has "1 text frames", and a story of more that 1 text frames, has "0 text frames". (This is per the data browser.)
Please advise how can I solve this Issue.
Thank you,
Ola
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