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• • December 26, 2019 at 10:38 am #1219692
    Year 1917

    Member

    hi

    does someone know of a script that tells you which pages have overset text in them so you can fix them?

    thanks

    P.S. there is some floating around online but they don’t seem to work in indesign 2020

  • December 26, 2019 at 4:12 pm #14323382
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    No script necessary! Check out the Preflight panel:
    https://indesignsecrets.com/tip-week-finding-overset-text-preflight.php

  • December 26, 2019 at 5:42 pm #14323379
    Year 1917

    Member

    thanks david!

    i still would like a script that would just list on which pages there is overset text (as my document has a lot of errors (hebrew typesetting))

    thanks

  • December 27, 2019 at 11:37 am #14323377
    Brian Pifer

    Participant

    Agree it’s probably easier to use to preflight as you can navigate to the textframe in question through the panel, but here you go.

    var tfs = app.documents[0].textFrames;
    var oversetPageNums = [];

    for (var i = 0; i < tfs.length; i++) {
    if (tfs[i].overflows) {
    oversetPageNums.push(tfs[i].parentPage.name);
    }
    }

    alert(oversetPageNums);

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