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Here's the function:

function runPages(theDoc, theStory) { 
  var uRuler = theDoc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin; 
  theDoc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = RulerOrigin.spreadOrigin; 
  while (theStory.textContainers[theStory.textContainers.length-1].overflows) { 
    theDoc.documentPreferences.pagesPerDocument = theDoc.documentPreferences.pagesPerDocument + 1; 
    var backPage = theDoc.pages[-1]; 
    app.activeWindow.activePage = backPage; 
    backPage.appliedMaster = theDoc.pages[-2].appliedMaster; 
    var myPbounds = backPage.bounds; 
    var myNewTF = backPage.textFrames.add(); 
    if ((backPage.name % 2 == 1) || (!theDoc.documentPreferences.facingPages)) { 
      myNewTF.geometricBounds =  
        [myPbounds[0] + backPage.marginPreferences.top,  
          myPbounds[1] + backPage.marginPreferences.left,  
          myPbounds[2] - backPage.marginPreferences.bottom,  
          myPbounds[3] - backPage.marginPreferences.right]; 
    } else { 
      myNewTF.geometricBounds =  
        [myPbounds[0] + backPage.marginPreferences.top,  
          myPbounds[1] + backPage.marginPreferences.right,  
          myPbounds[2] - backPage.marginPreferences.bottom,  
          myPbounds[3] - backPage.marginPreferences.left]; 
    } 
    myNewTF.itemLayer = theStory.textContainers[theStory.textContainers.length-1].itemLayer; 
    myNewTF.previousTextFrame = theStory.textContainers[theStory.textContainers.length-1]; 
    myNewTF.textFramePreferences.textColumnCount = backPage.marginPreferences.columnCount; 
    myNewTF.textFramePreferences.textColumnGutter = backPage.marginPreferences.columnGutter; 
    if (myNewTF.characters.length == 0){ 
      theDoc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = uRuler; 
      throw ("Permanently overset"); // This indicates a permanent overset condition so break out of loop 
    } 
  } 
  theDoc.viewPreferences.rulerOrigin = uRuler; 
}

And indeed, it throws the error if you try to use it to run pages for a story that consists (or includes) a table long enough that one frame in the originally overset material consists only of a part of the table.

Grrr.

Dave

What I'm hoping for is a mechanism that avoids having to check for the specific causes of permanently overset text. The fact that one of the possible causes is a row of a table that is taller than the text frame would mean having to search through the last non-overset table (the one contained by the character in the parent story of the overset frame whose index matches the index of the one insertion point in the overset frame) to see if that particular condition applies.

Now I think about it, there's another possibility for a frame with zero characters: This would happen if a paragraph had the Start on Next Even/Odd Page activated.

Hmmm.

Perhaps I should try to forget all this and return to my ignorance is bliss state.

Dave

Hi Dave,

Yes. I've dealt with this.

There's a few of problems here:

1) Next odd/even page keeps options. You can get an empty frame because 
of that. I require the last two page frames to be empty to make it 
permanently overset.
2) Continued tables (like you said).
3) Continued footnotes. The text frame will likewise have no characters 
if a footnote continues and there's no main text. (Yes. It can happen.)

If have functions to check for all of these. I'll be happy to send them 
to you if you write to me on the private...

What we really should have is properties to identify continued table 
cells/rows and continued footnote text. I've been meaning to write this 
up as a feature request for some time now...

-- 
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

Hi Harbs,

Thanks for the offer. I guess I was just trying to confirm that I wasn't missing something obvious. For now, I'll live with what I have -- the two-in-a-row test is a good one, though.

You are clearly much more into footnotes than I've ever been!

Dave

Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com wrote:
> You are clearly much more into footnotes than I've ever been!
>   

Probably, but I could say the same thing regarding you and tables! ;)

Here's the basic idea for getting empty frames (as you can see, my 
functions all rely upon each other):

function IsEmptyTextFrame(textFrame){
    if(textFrame.characters.length>0){return false}
    if(HasTables (textFrame)){return false}
    if(HasFootnotes (textFrame)){return false}
    return true;
    }

function HasFootnotes(textFrame){
    if(textFrame.footnotes.length>0){return true}
    var footnote = GetLastPlacedFootnote(textFrame.parentStory);
    if(! footnote){return false}
    var footnoteFrames = AsArray(footnote.parentTextFrames);
    if(GetItemIndex(footnoteFrames,textFrame)!=null){return true}
    return false;
    }
//**********************************
function HasTables(textFrame){
    if(textFrame.tables.length>0){return true}
    if(textFrame.lines.length==0){return false}
    if(textFrame.lines[0].characters.length==0){return true}
    return false;
    }

-- 
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

Very nice. Thanks.

Dave