Cleaning up (not only) text frames, Pt. 2

hi here,

 

please consider sequel pretty old, 'answered' , lenghty thread http://forums.adobe.com/thread/920269?tstart=0.

 

cdflash compiled nice script there:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55743036/emptyframeremover.jsx

 

it trick... of times.

i found worth add try/catch wrapper lines 16-24, because:

start new doc, create empty (no fill, outline, etc.) graphic/unassigned frame(s), run script. you'll error:

if there @ least 1 text frame in doc (empty or not, doesn't matter), script works expected. if not, better have lines 16-24 wrapped, won't hurt anyway.

 

now bad news:

recently, working on real-world document (not test!) stumbled on case this:

 

so: if paste into empty (no fill, outline, etc.) box image it's own frame, or native id object, script happily remove whole thing. no good. shouldn't touched @ all.

yeah, such design serve sample of bad workflow, but... isn't buzz about?

 

as far understand (not much), piece of code should modified:

 

 

var mygraphicframes = app.activedocument.rectangles;

for (i=mygraphicframes.length-1; i>=0; i--) {

var stroke = mygraphicframes[i].strokeweight;

var color = mygraphicframes[i].fillcolor.name;

var tpath = mygraphicframes[i].textpaths.length;

var wrap = mygraphicframes[i].textwrappreferences.textwrapmode;

    if (mygraphicframes[i].graphics.length < 1 && stroke == "0" && color == "none" && wrap === textwrapmodes.none && tpath == 0)

        mygraphicframes[i].remove();

}

 

and trick further repeated twice...

 

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... colin, still eager party?

@winterm – hah!
finally real-world example…

 

for testing reasons think need idml, indesign file or @ least snippet (idms) file.

 

can share download?
or @ least send me zipped idml via mail.
just send me personal message before.

 

uwe

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