Delete Empty (Anchor) frames
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Today, I came around a situation where I need to delete Empty Anchor (any)frames from the whole document. Can anyone please suggest some script for the same or edit the one by Harb:
var myStories = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = myStories.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
var myTextFrames = myStories[i].textContainers;
for (j = myTextFrames.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
if (myTextFrames[j].contents == ""){
myTextFrames[j].remove();
}
}
}There was a topic where David explains “Finding Empty Text Frames in InDesign” https://creativepro.com/finding-empty-text-frames-in-indesign.php. He also talks about Harbs script called “DeleteEmptyFrames.jsx” https://creativepro.com/downloads/forcedl/DeleteEmptyFrames.jsx.
Moreover, there is my article on the same “A Script for Cleaning Up Empty Text Frames” https://creativepro.com/script-cleaning-empty-text-frames.php
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I figured out the problem, the anchored frame is in a Table.
The script I shared in my article “A Script for Cleaning Up Empty Text Frames” https://creativepro.com/script-cleaning-empty-text-frames.php is working fine for the Anchored frame if it is not in a table.
Can someone help me please on this.
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Try this out:
//Ari S. - [email protected] // Delete empty anchored frames app.scriptPreferences.enableRedraw = false; app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Delete Empty Anchored Frames"); function main(){ var myDoc = app.activeDocument; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = false; app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true; app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "~a"; var myFound = myDoc.findGrep(true); for (i = (myFound.length - 1); i >= 0; i--){ var myAnchorPosition = myFound[i]; if (myAnchorPosition.texts[0].pageItems[0].contents == ""){ myAnchorPosition.texts[0].pageItems[0].remove(); } } }
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Ari, The script is removing the empty Text frames only, where as there are empty graphic frames as well in my document. Therefore my requirement is to delete all the empty frames whether Text or Graphic and whether anchored or not within text or table.
For your reference, the file is uploaded here: https://www.hightail.com/download/cUJVck8zQVMwMEZ1a3NUQw
Thanks in advance
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