🚀 go-pugleaf

Groan. This line: 

      myFrames[j].parent.constructor.name = 'Character'




should be 

      myFrames[j].parent.constructor.name == 'Character'




That's what you get when you add lines at the last moment and don't try it. I added that line because when a frame is already "independen", its parent is a page, whereas an embedded frame's parent is a character.

That all styling is lost surprises me, but that is indeed the case. That calls for a different approach:

#target indesign;

myPages = app.activeDocument.pages; 
for (i = 0; i < myPages.length; i++) 
  { 
  myFrames = myPages[i].allPageItems; 
  for (j = myFrames.length-1; j > -1; j--) 
    { 
    if (myFrames[j].parent.constructor.name == 'Character') 
      { 
      try 
        { 
        gb = myFrames[j].geometricBounds; 
        myFrames[j].duplicate ([gb[1],gb[0]]); 
        myFrames[j].remove(); 
        } 
      catch(_){} 
      } 
    } 
  } 


This leaves all formatting intact. The script should really also check if myFrames[n] is a text frame.

Peter