Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Splitting All Frames in a Story; Creating an Anchored Frame

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Working with Text Frames 89
Splitting all frames in a story
The following script fragment shows how to split all frames in a story into separate, independent stories,
each containing one unlinked text frame (for the complete script, see SplitStory):
if(app.documents.length != 0){
if(app.selection.length != 0){
//Get the first item in the selection.
var mySelection = app.selection[0];
//Process the selection. If text or a text frame is
//selected, do something; otherwise, do nothing.
switch(mySelection.constructor.name){
case "Text":
case "InsertionPoint":
case "Character":
case "Word":
case "Line":
case "TextStyleRange":
case "Paragraph":
case "TextColumn":
case "TextFrame":
//If the text frame is the only text frame in the story, do nothing.
if(mySelection.parentStory.textContainers.length != 1){
//Splitting the story is a two-step process: first, duplicate
//the text frames, second, delete the original text frames.
mySplitStory(mySelection.parentStory);
myRemoveFrames(mySelection.parentStory);
}
break;
}
}
}
Here is the mySplitStory function referred to in the preceding script:
function mySplitStory(myStory){
var myTextFrame;
//Duplicate each text frame in the story.
for(var myCounter = myStory.textContainers.length-1; myCounter >= 0;
myCounter --){
myTextFrame = myStory.textContainers[myCounter];
myTextFrame.duplicate();
}
}
function myRemoveFrames(myStory){
//Remove each text frame in the story. Iterate backwards to
//avoid invalid references.
for(var myCounter = myStory.textContainers.length-1; myCounter >= 0; myCounter --){
myStory.textContainers[myCounter].remove();
}
}
Creating an anchored frame
To create an anchored frame (also known as an inline frame), you can create a text frame (or rectangle,
oval, polygon, or graphic line) at a specific location in text (usually an insertion point). The following script
fragment shows an example (for the complete script, see AnchoredFrame):