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Last frame in a story: textFrameItem.nextFrame is not null

Hi together,
the value of nextFrame of the last textFrameItem in a story should always be null. Otherwise you could thread the outport of a text frame item with the inport of the same text frame item.

And indeed that's the case!

See details in this thread at the Adobe Illustrator Scripting Forum:

  1. Re: [BUG] copying threaded text-frames. Laubender Mar 30, 2019 7:42 PM (in response to Laubender) https://forums.adobe.com/message/11004207#11004207

Since this IS POSSIBLE it creates a rather strange text composition in the affected story. So my suggestion: nextFrame of the last threaded text frame item in a story should always be null.

Here an example where I used one single text frame item that is threaded with itself:

  1. Re: [BUG] copying threaded text-frames. Laubender Mar 30, 2019 7:58 PM (in response to Laubender) https://forums.adobe.com/message/11004345#11004345

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

ATTACHED:
BUG-with-nextFrame-of-objext-TextFrameItem.zip.txt

( To unzip the attached zip file rename it to *.zip first. )

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  • Uwe Laubender commented  ·   ·  Report

    Tested with Adobe Illustrator CC 2019 on Windows 10.

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( ACP )

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