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• • November 1, 2015 at 9:35 am #79127
    Tammy Crawford

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    is it possible to write a simple script to select 3 text frames at a time then run the join text frame script select the the merge frame fitting button, then move to the next three frames and repeating. very new to scripting. i am currently doing it manually. so any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • November 2, 2015 at 3:14 pm #79173
    Peter Kahrel

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    Maybe if you take the time to explain yourself in some more detail, someone might decide if a simple script is possible or if you need a complicated one.

    1. ‘select 3 text frames’ — which 3 frames?
    2. ‘run the join text frame script’ — which script is that?
    3. ‘the merge frame fitting button’ (desperately in need of a hyphen here) — which button? What do you mean by ‘merge frame’: threading?
    4. ‘then move to the next three frames’ — which next three frames? Where are they?

    Peter

  • November 16, 2015 at 5:49 am #79466
    Tammy Crawford

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    i’m sorry for not being clear. on each page there is 12 text frames. i want the script to select the first three frames. join the text frames to one frame. the select the next three frames and merge them together and so on and so fort.

    inside the merge text frame script you can choose to have the text frame to fit the frame to the content.

    i hope i explained it better.

  • November 18, 2015 at 10:29 am #79502
    Peter Kahrel

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    I’m guessing that each page has four rows of three frames, and that you want to thread the frames in each row, so that you end up with four stories on each page. If the frames were placed left to right and top to bottom, then the threading is simple.

    What’s less simple is the option to fit frames to their content. When you do that in the interface, text frames can be fitted only vertically. So how should the frames be fitted? That is, where should the text be after fitting it? Maybe a screenshot of the before and after situations might be an idea.

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