1 Reply Latest reply: Nov 11, 2014 8:36 AM by winterm RSS

    Bring All Text Boxes to Front

    Andymc7 Community Member
    Andymc7 Nov 10, 2014 10:48 AM

      Hey everyone,

       

      Andy here again to ask a favor of all you amazing scripters out there...

       

      Does anyone know of a script that will bring every text frame in my doc to the front? I've run into the known issue of transparency causing some of my text to appear bold, so currently I'm having to bring each text frame to the front one by one, which is of course very time consuming.

       

      Any help is greatly appreciated!

       

      -Andy

        • 1. Re: Bring All Text Boxes to Front
          winterm Community Member
          winterm Nov 11, 2014 8:36 AM (in response to Andymc7)

          Better use separate layer for text, I think.

          You could check this

          https://forums.adobe.com/message/1114148#1114148

          or similar threads

           

          Or use this piece of code (it's not mine, sorry, can't recall the author):

          var TextLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.item("Text");
var tfs = app.activeDocument.spreads.everyItem().textFrames.everyItem().getElements();
while(tf = tfs.pop()){
   tf.move(TextLayer);
}

           

          It moves not grouped and not locked Text Frames to Text layer (must be created in advance).

          Doesn't affects Master Pages.

           

          Yet another option - try the free script Move to Layer of russian scripter Dmitriy Lapayev:

          http://www.lapay.biz/m