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Batch opening multiple text boxes in InDesign CS 5.5

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    • February 21, 2012 at 3:49 pm #61670
      Frank Design
      Member

      Hi,

      Does anyone knows if there is script for batch opening text boxes, with overflowed text, in InDesign?

      The way I am doing it now is going page by page opening overflowed text boxes but it is not a very efficient process.

      Thanks!

      Frank Design

    • February 22, 2012 at 3:31 am #61671
      Kasyan Servetsky
      Member

      Here I posted a collection of scripts dealing with this problem.

      Hope it helps.

      Kasyan

    • February 22, 2012 at 7:26 am #61673
      Frank Design
      Member

      Thanks for your reply Kasyan but I don't see any links in your post. Where should I go to get those scripts?

      Thanks

      Frank Design

    • February 22, 2012 at 11:32 am #61675
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      The word “Here” shows blue on my iPad, and indeed it is an hyperlink. (It takes you here: https://kasyan.ho.com.ua/find_o…..text.html)

      (Related reading: Christopher Dean's plea on Typophile to “Please, stop using “click here when writing” — click on the name of this article to read :) )

    • February 22, 2012 at 2:11 pm #61676
      Frank Design
      Member

      Duh!

      We all have blonde moments.

      Thank you guys!

    • February 22, 2012 at 3:24 pm #61677
      Frank Design
      Member

      I tried the script and it works with some files only. I am getting this error over and over.

      =======================================

      JavaScript Error!

      Error Number: 21
      Error String: undefined is not an object

      File: /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS4/Scripts/
      Scripts Panel/Frank scripts/
      resize_overset_textframes.jsx
      Line: 10
      Source lastFrame.fit
      (FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);

      =======================================

      Do you have a fix for this?

      Thanks!!

      Frank Design

    • February 22, 2012 at 7:13 pm #61679
      Marc Autret
      Member

      frankdesign305 said:

      Do you have a fix for this?

      Try this code instead:

      //===================================
      
	var FO = FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT,
      
	    tfs = ([]).concat.apply([], app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().textContainers),
      
	    t, i = tfs.length;
      
	while( i-- ) (t=tfs[i]).overflows && ( t.locked || t.fit(FO) );
      
	//===================================
      
	
      
	

      
	
      (Note that the native fit() method can only treat single column frames.)

      
	
      @+

      
	
      Marc
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