Hi together,
if we duplicate a group of threaded text frame items to a different Illustrator document the story's threaded text frame items will not be threaded anymore in the target document.

If you duplicate the group in the same document the threaded text frame items remain threaded.

All details here at Adobe Illustrator Scripting Forum:

[BUG] copying threaded text-frames.
Silly-V Mar 22, 2019 9:30 AM
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10991060#10991060

One has to rethread the text frame items in the target document.
That should not be necessary.

No issue if we copy and paste grouped and threaded text frame items using the menu commands.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

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 )

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

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

Hi

(Illustrator 2015-3, mac)

I try to put this text in a frame.

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Before insertAfter, the text ( as a char *) is correct

After the insertAfter, it is also correct ( via getContents).

But garbage is displayed as seen in the screen capture.

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I'm stuck.

Thanks for any help.

He re is some code I use.

// get contents

TextFrameRef textFrameRef = NULL;

AIErr result = sAITextFrame->GetATETextFrame(bloc, &textFrameRef);

ATE::ITextFrame textFrame(textFrameRef);

ATE::ITextRange textRange = textFrame.GetTextRange();

// textRange.Select();

//debug

int longueur = textRange.GetContents(s, 255);

// set contents to contenu

// Set the contents of the text range.

TextRangeRef range = NULL;

result = sAITextFrame->GetATETextRange(bloc, &range);

ATE:: crange(range);

    crange.Remove();


 crange.InsertAfter(ai::UnicodeString(contenu).as_ASUnicode().c_str());

    // crange or textRange give the same result

    //debug text is OK in s

    longueur = textRange.GetContents(s, 255);

Best regards

Christian

selection[0].duplicate()
// redraw()
alert(selection.length)

when running this script in Illustrator, you will see that both the original selection plus its duplicate will be selected, but the alert will display 1. Running this script in debug shows that selection only contains one object despite .duplicate() being used. This causes a corruption(?) issue where in reality there are now two objects selected but selection only shows one to be selected unless you do redraw(). This discrepancy will cause Illustrator to crash when trying to set the selection (in specific circumstances) on another line after the .duplicate().

In other situations, whether one or two objects are selected after script execution is finished depends on whether you run the script in Illustrator or in debug. This makes it quite hard to be a developer.

.duplicate() needs to be fixed to immediately update selection when executed. using redraw() is not an ideal solution.