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• • December 12, 2019 at 1:10 pm #1202642
    Mahesh Thambe

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    I need to get the starting position of text, for every paragraph of text on my page.
    Is there a way to find this in scripting?

  • December 12, 2019 at 6:27 pm #14323460
    Brian Pifer

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    This will hit the insertion point at the start of every paragraph on the first page of a document.

    var pagePars = app.document[0].pages[0].textFrames.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < pagePars.length;i++) {
    var ip = pagePars[i].insertionPoints[0];
    //do something at each insertionPoint
    }

    There are other ways to get to whichever paragraphs you need. For instance, if you had a textFrame selected with the black arrow tool, you could get the textFrame’s parent story paragraphs with this:

    var psPars = app.selection[0].parent.paragraphs;
    for (var i = 0; i < psPars.length; i++) {
    var ip = psPars[i].insertionPoints[0];
    //do something at each insertionPoint

    }

  • December 15, 2019 at 10:29 pm #14323443
    Mahesh Thambe

    Member

    Thanks, Brian !

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