Order of Text Frames

Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan

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    • August 27, 2017 at 12:53 pm #97075
      Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan
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      Hi there…

      I am trying to update the contents of All the text frames in my InDesign file, using JavaScript.

      In what sequence js reaches each text frame? I ask this question because it seems it selects the text frames in any order, randomly. How to force js to select based on the location of the frames?

      Thank you in advance.

    • August 27, 2017 at 6:11 pm #97078
      Lindsey Martin
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      I believe it follows the order in which the frames were created; at least this is how find/change works. I assume that each frame is named somewhere in the DOM to indicate this order.

    • August 30, 2017 at 2:18 pm #97129
      Peter Kahrel
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      > In what sequence js reaches each text frame?

      In what way ‘next’? If you mean the next threaded frame, then nextTextFrame returns a frame’s next frame:

      frame = myTextFrame.nextTextFrame;

      With unthreaded frames, as Lindsey mentions, their indexes reflect the order of creation.

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