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CHAPTER 4: Scripting with AppleScript Working with text frames 37

Depending on what is selected, the selection property value can be an array of any type of art objects. To

get or manipulate the properties of the selected art items, you must retrieve the individual items in the

array. To find out an object’s type, use the

class property.

The following sample gets the first object in the array, then displays the object’s type:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

set myDoc to current document

set selectedObjects to selection of myDoc

set topObject to item 1 of selectedObjects

display dialog (class of topObject)

end tell

The first object in a selection array is the selected object that was last added to the page, not the last object

selected.

Selecting artwork objects

To select an art object, the object’s selected property.

Working with text frames

To create a text frame of a specific type in AppleScript, use the kind property of the text frame object:

set myRect to make new rectangle in current document with properties ?

{position:{100, 700}, height:100, width:100}

set myAreaText to make new text frame in current document with properties ?

{kind:point text,contents:"Text Frame 1"}

Threaded frames

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

To thread existing text frames, use the

next frame or previous frame property of the text frame object.

When copying the following script to your script editor, place the value of the

contents property on one

line. The long-line character (

¬) is not valid within a string value.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

make new document

make new rectangle in current document with properties ?

{position:{100, 500}, height:100, width:100}

make new text frame in current document with properties ?

{kind:area text, text path:the result, name:"tf1", ?

contents:"This is two text frames linked together as one story, with?

text flowing from the first to the last. First frame content. "}

make new rectangle in current document with properties ?

{position:{300, 700}, height:100, width:100}

make new text frame in current document with properties ?

{kind:area text, text path:the result, name:"tf2", ?

contents:"Second frame content." }

--use the next frame property to thread the frames

set next frame of text frame "tf1" of current document to ?

text frame "tf2" of current document

redraw

end tell

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