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• • January 15, 2020 at 2:05 am #1223128
    Radhakrishnan Radhakrishnan

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    Hi there,

    Salutations.

    To get the first page of the document we use, var myPage = myDoc.pages.item(1).

    What would be the code for getting the current page of the document?

    Thanks in Advance.

    RK

  • January 15, 2020 at 7:28 am #14323277
    Robert Ploch

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    Hi,
    first of all to get the first page in document you should use: myDoc.pages.item(0) ….. :)

    If I properly understand your idea, CURRENT page is one of currently visible pages ?

    If, so try this code:

    app.activeWindow.activeSpread.pages[n];

    n – corresponds to one of pages from which is the spread ( one or more pages) consist.
    0 is the first one

    regards
    Robert

  • January 17, 2020 at 6:42 am #14323266
    Magnus Gaarde

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    There is also the parentPage property of a textFrame. Handy if your script is looping through many pages .

    For instance this :

    var currentPage = myParagraphs[i].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;

    would set the currentPage variable to the page of the paragraph’s initial insertionPoint.

    In much the same manner you could find the current page of a character, a textstyle range, a footnote, a note, an anchored object etc.

  • January 17, 2020 at 12:15 pm #14323263
    Theunis De Jong

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    No need to use activeSpread for a single page, LayoutWindow also has an activePage property. See https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#LayoutWindow.html (your handy first Go To for all such questions).

  • January 17, 2020 at 2:54 pm #14323258
    Robert Ploch

    Member

    Hi Theunis,
    thank you for very accurate remark, I’ve missed that property :)

  • January 21, 2020 at 3:48 am #14323252
    Magnus Gaarde

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    Yes, Theunis
    activePage is a handy property for getting that one specific page.
    The only thing that bothers me about this is that if you have your zoom fit to spread then the active page is automatically set to the left one. Even if you have a selection on the right hand page. To make the right hand page the active one I must move the spread a bit to the left.
    It could be that I am doing something wrong, but this has bothered me so much that I would rather get the current page from a selection on the page.

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