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• • August 6, 2017 at 2:53 am #96571
    Keyvan Mousavian

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    Hello

    The document I’m working on has three layers and on each page, there is one text frame in each of the three layers. I’m writing a script to change the contents of these text frames for the active page.
    For the page part, I’m using this code:
    mypage = myindesign.ActiveWindow.ActivePage
    For selecting and naming each text-frame in its appropriate layer, I thought of using some sort of loop to check for identifying characteristics of these text-frames(such as contents, table row count, etc) or checking the “textframe.itemlayer” property of each text-frame and then writing the entire code in that loop, but it seems like an unnecessarily complicated code.
    So, I was thinking if there was a property I don’t know of, that could specify the page AND layer of a text-frame. for example:
    mytextframe1 = mypage.layers.item”layer1″.textframes.item(1)
    Or something like that.

    Thanks

  • August 19, 2017 at 1:27 am #96920
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    I read in another topic you seem to be able to write “not-easy-to-code” scripts!

    So I think you just need here more researches, more readings and more tests/errors/debuggings!

    … But you’re in the right direction with terms as “active page”, “text frame” and “layer”.

    Good luck!

    (^/) ;-)

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