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Ahh, challenges are my bread and butter. Preferably, also with a slice of Gouda and a dash of mustard.

Good thing you mentioned this:

… in my real-life case, anchored text boxes

because, indeed, it takes a bit more processing to search inside textframes that are inside textframes. See the nested loop that iterates one level deeper in the frame-that-is-on-a-page.

if (app.selection.length != 1 || !app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty(“baseline”))
{
alert (“Please put your text cursor in a (preferably) empty text frame!”);
exit(0);
}
app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(“Cursief”);
for (p=0; p<app.activeDocument.pages.length; p++)
for (f=0; f<app.activeDocument.pages[p].textFrames.length; f++)
{
if (app.activeDocument.pages[p].textFrames[f].contents.length)
{
sourcelist = app.activeDocument.pages[p].textFrames[f].findText().reverse();
while (sourcelist.length > 0)
app.selection[0].parentStory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = sourcelist.pop().contents+”r”;
for (af=0; af<app.activeDocument.pages[p].textFrames[f].textFrames.length; af++)
sourcelist = app.activeDocument.pages[p].textFrames[f].textFrames[af].findText().reverse();
while (sourcelist.length > 0)
app.selection[0].parentStory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = sourcelist.pop().contents+”r”;
}
}

For some reason findText fails with some non-obvious error message if a text frame does not contain any text (“Object contains no text for find/change”, what's that supposed to mean?) — I expected it just to find nothing — so there is an additional test to check if the frame contains anything at all (the 'contents.length' line).

Does this come close to what you had in mind?

This article was last modified on November 18, 2011

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