Adobe 0046100128056 Scripting Guide - Page 87
Unlinking text frames, Removing a frame from a story, In InDesign
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CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Working with Text Frames 87 var myDocument = app.documents.item(0); var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0); var myTextFrameA = myPage.textFrames.item(1); var myTextFrameB = myPage.textFrames.item(0); //Add a page. var myNewPage = myDocument.pages.add(); //Create another text frame on the new page. var myTextFrameC = myNewPage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[72, 72, 144, 144]}) //Link TextFrameA to TextFrameB using the nextTextFrame property. myTextFrameA.nextTextFrame = myTextFrameB; //Link TextFrameC to TextFrameB using the previousTextFrame property. myTextFrameC.previousTextFrame = myTextFrameB; //Fill the text frames with placeholder text. myTextFrameA.contents = TextFrameContents.placeholderText; Unlinking text frames The following example script shows how to unlink text frames (for the complete script, see UnlinkTextFrames): //Unlink the two text frames. myTextFrameA.nextTextFrame = NothingEnum.nothing; Removing a frame from a story In InDesign, deleting a frame from a story does not delete the text in the frame, unless the frame is the only frame in the story. The following script fragment shows how to delete a frame and the text it contains from a story without disturbing the other frames in the story (for the complete script, see BreakFrame): var myObjectList = new Array; //Script does nothing if no documents are open or if no objects are selected. if(app.documents.length != 0){ if(app.selection.length != 0){ //Process the objects in the selection to create a list of //qualifying objects (text frames). for(myCounter = 0; myCounter < app.selection.length; myCounter ++){ switch(app.selection[myCounter].constructor.name){ case "TextFrame": myObjectList.push(app.selection[myCounter]); break; default: if(app.selection.length == 1){ //If text is selected, then get the parent text frame. switch(app.selection[myCounter].constructor.name){ case "Text": case "InsertionPoint": case "Character": case "Word": case "Line": case "TextStyleRange": case "Paragraph": case "TextColumn":