How to select a block of text to the Script name?

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  Hello world

  I'm sure it must be something obvious, but I can't get out!

  I'm trying to select multiple blocks of text. I choose a text frame and then 'shift' to select a second frame and his works fine AS LONG AS the blocks of text are not threaded. When text frames are threaded I can't select more than one at a time?

  Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.  HJ

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• How can I create a series of blocks of text using the Excel list values?

  It is first of all, the first script I am trying to write from scratch. I'm completely green at the script and I picked up a few bits of ID Adobe scripting guide, but nothing has really stuck still relating to this particular goal.

  My supervisor maintains a master list of advertising space, with the name of the account, is the width of the space, and how space is the height, in an Excel sheet. These spaces can number in the hundreds, and I'm stuck manually drawing a rectangle for each space, which takes a lot of time.

  I would like to create / helped to create a script that will take these values and "magically" to draw these spaces in the form of blocks of text, with the width (in columns) and the height (in inches) defined by the values in the main list, as well as the name of each account in the subsequent text frames.

  The script didn't necessarily need to be able to pull the values directly from the Excel sheet; Can I transfer a file text if necessary, or directly in the script, values he change because I need it. A great thing (if she is not able to pull directly from an Excel sheet) which is the number of spaces a week changes, and so do the accounts and the width and height. Accordingly, it would be ideal that values of the sheet could be modified easily, in order to create a new set of spaces as necessary.

  Positioning for each space is not crucial, only the height and width. If they were all on top of each other on the same page, it is a result for me. The main idea is to not have to draw them all manually, one by one.

  For me, this looks like a command, but I hope that some experienced there Scripting Guys can help me, because I want to become experienced as well.

  Thus, the TL; DR version:

  -Script to draw a series of text blocks.

  -Size of the text boxes should be defined by the values width and height of spreadsheet Excel.

  -Text blocks must have the account name as content (from account in the Excel worksheet names).

  -Accounts, width and height changes every week in the Excel sheet, so must be relatively easy to exchange all values.

  -Width values on the Excel worksheet columns. It would be ideal that the script could turn those numbers into multiples of columns as necessary.

  -Script (optionally) can take values directly from Excel sheet.

  -Script (option) can set the fill color for the gray text frame. (If it works as I think, I could just select all the resulting images of the text myself and put them all to grey at the same time... I'm not lazy as )

  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help in any way possible, even if it's just a little push in the right direction. This script will save 1 to 2 hours of boredom every week.

  Look like the perfect thing for the InDesign scripting.

  I copy content from Excel to a text file, for a format easily read in InDesign, and there will automatically be a TAB for each 'cell', just using copy and paste.

  Here is a piece of code, perhaps you could go on with (the addition of variable to change pages and the location on the page and other things).

  The readFileLineByLine function, can be easily reused with any function using "recall". You simply tell the function what you want to be executed for each line of text that reads:

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  var textFramesExported; // not implemented.
  
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      var width = COLUMN_WIDTH * cells[1];
      var height = cells[2];
  
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  The file in C:\ in my example was recorded in UTF-8 format and looks like this (showing hidden characters):

  

  Post edited by: Andreas Jansson

• How to select multiple lines of text (without selecting all the text) within a title? (Holding Cmd does not work)

  I need to select several lines of text (in the various sections of the text) within a title without selecting any text. Holding Cmd like you would in other applications does not work, and now Shift selects all. Does anyone have a solution?

  Thank you.

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• Select a block of text with lable

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  var jt = app.activeDocument.pages [2] .textFrames;

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  If (.label jt [i] is 'Hand Text')

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• How to replace a block of text by an .ai file?

  Hello

  I am writing a javascript script Illustrator open a file's get a block of text in the layers/pageItems by its content, then replacing it by a placedItem to the incorporation of another file .ai (shape slightly).

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  'element' typename is TextFrame.

  'WalkingMan' form is well drawn, but not translated and resized at all. However, scaleX, scaleY, deltaX deltaY values seem to be good.

  Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

  I'd appreciate any help on this!

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• Blocks of text on the Pages of body 'Buried' after update of the Page Master

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  There is no image on the master page to the enclosed area. I wonder if that's what I need trouble. Just add a backstory (not attached flow)?

  Advice before I go and screw something else?

  It is what it is supposed to look like (1). Image (2) what I mean now.

  

  

  Thanks Arnis,

  It was the property of skin! How simple... I didn't have on this subject.

  Solved!

  To answer you question, however... my approach for the construction of this new model was:

  1. I created a graph from bottom (full page) to contain the image of brand and imported/positioned.
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  I'm not dropping blocks of text for the content of the body... except for these tips and remarks. I don't want to use a workflow for this because I never know where they'll pop up and I want to be able to (position) specifically on each page. Is this a good approach?

  Yes, I'm aware of the continuous line down the block of text NOTE you mentioned. Originally, I had all the text within the limits. When I have updated master, all offbeat pages (only in blocks of text body page with notes/tips). I repositioned and they flow very well now.

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• find and delete blocks of text with the same geometricBounds

  Hi writer... .new question from here:

  mySelection var = app.activeDocument.selection [0] .geometricBounds;

  alert (mySelection);

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  If possible, the same dimensions, but not the same positions.

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  OK Bala... .in to decimal differences, some executives have not been removed.

  I solved with "Math.round' instead of 'number '.

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

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• find a block of text on the page with the name of script

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  Hello Roberto,

  Welcome to the forum,

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• CS5 - most effective way to wire and independent streams of two blocks of text in the same document?

  Greetings...

  I am responsible for creating a 100-page instructor guide and I looking for a little guidance in the use of independent text blocks that thread the length of the document.  The idea behind the use of two columns, is that the first column (left) must be used for the notes 'instructor-only', advice, etc..  The second column (right) should be used for the text of the student guide.  Two columns (or blocks of text) would need to move independently of each other.  In other words, when the left column is filled with text placed on the page, the flow of additional text in the left column on page two, left column on page three, etc.  Same thing applies to the right column.  There is no link or thread of the text between the two columns on the same page.

  I tried to reproduce this in a two-column table format, however, the table row height is limited and overset text will not continue the table in the block of text on the next page.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Set up master page text frames.

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  Could Hello someone give me a hand?

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  ------------------------------------------------------

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  ------------------------------------------------------

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• Select all blocks of text related

  Dear all,

  My request:

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