The textframes that get merged can have any variety object-level settings applied to them (InCopy assignment, multiple columns, drop shadows, etc). In trying to take into account all of the possible cases, I tried to avoid guessing what the user wants, because I may end up overwriting something that he/she cares about. Re: Multiple columns and InCopy Assignment, I address a little bit of this inĪ lot of these things are at the level of the textframe itself and not the text content. It’s a very helpful plug-in, but I often get lots of text frames where I just want one. One example of where I know I’ll be using this is after converting files with the PDF2ID plug-in from recosoft. Here’s an example (before, dialog box, and after): You can also find a version for Illustrator here. The Merge Text Frames for Adobe InDesign script works in InDesign CS2, CS3, and CS4. Now, help comes to InDesign and Illustrator, in the forms of a couple of scripts written by Ajar Productions. If I recall, there was a cool feature of Aldus PageMaker (I’m sorry, but it’ll never really be Adobe PageMaker to me) that let you copy a bunch of text frames at the same time, then past them all into a single, merged story. But if they’re unthreaded frames, then getting all that text into a single frame can be a pain in the… well, pick your least favorite part of the body to have a pain of this sort. Not a big deal if they’re already threaded together. Sometimes I just have too many text frames on a spread and I want to merge them together.
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