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CHAPTER 6: Scripting with VBScript Working with text frames 58

Working with text frames

To create a text frame of a specific type in VBScript, use the TextFrames method that corresponds to the

type of frame you want to create:

Set rectRef = docRef.PathItems.Rectangle(700, 50, 100, 100)

' Use the AreaText method to create the text frame

Set areaTextRef = docRef.TextFrames.AreaText(rectRef)

Threaded frames

As in the Illustrator application, you can thread area path frames or path text frames.

To thread existing text frames, use the

NextFrame or PreviousFrame property of the TextFrames object.

When copying the following script to a script or text editor, place the value of the

Contents property on

one line. The long-line continuation character (

_) is not valid when enclosed in a string.

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

Set myDoc = appRef.Documents.Add

Set myPathItem1 = myDoc.PathItems.Rectangle(244, 64, 82, 76)

Set myTextFrame1 = myDoc.TextFrames.AreaText(myPathItem1)

myTextFrame1.Contents = "This is two text frames linked together as one story, with

text flowing from the first to the last."

Set myPathItem2 = myDoc.PathItems.Rectangle(144, 144, 42, 116)

Set myTextFrame2 = myDoc.TextFrames.AreaText(myPathItem2)

'Use the NextFrame property to thread the frames

myTextFrame1.NextFrame = myTextFrame2

appRef.Redraw()

Threaded frames make a single story object

Threaded frames make a single story object. To observe this, run the following VBScript after running the

script in “

Threaded frames” on page 58.

Set myDoc = appRef.ActiveDocument

myMsg = "alert(""There are " & CStr(myDoc.TextFrames.Count) & " text frames. "")"

appRef.DoJavaScript myMsg

myMsg = "alert(""There are " & CStr(myDoc.Stories.Count) & " storiess. "")"

appRef.DoJavaScript myMsg

Creating paths and shapes

This section explains how to create items that contain paths.

Paths

To create a freeform path, specify a series of path points, as a series of either x-y coordinates or PathPoint

objects.

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