Re: re:Little Mystery Squares

["Rick Quatro" <frameexpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Framers,

Why wait for Adobe? Here is a simple FrameScript script that removes empty
text lines from the current document. Of course, it could be modified to
delete empty text frames as well.

Set vGraphic = FirstGraphicInDoc;
Loop While(vGraphic)
  Set vNextGraphic = vGraphic.NextGraphicInDoc;
  If vGraphic.ObjectName = 'TextLine'
    If vGraphic.Text = ''
      Delete Object(vGraphic);
    EndIf
  EndIf
Set vGraphic = vNextGraphic;
EndLoop

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
frameexpert@mindspring.com
FrameScript Information at www.mindspring.com/~frameexpert


Adobe: A tool to automatically remove empty Text LINES as descibed below
would be appreciated. In fact, a tool to automatically remove empty text
FRAMES, i.e. those created with the Graphics Text Frame Tool, would also be
nice.

These "boxes" you describe (see snip below) are the remnants of clicking the
Graphics Text Line Tool on the page and then not entering any text (or later
deleting all the text). It is an empty object. I sometimes find dozens of
them inside anchored frames when I get files from indecisive writers who
click about madly with the text tool.

<<snip>>
Subject: Little Mystery Squares
From: Wendy McGovern <wmcgovern@pbi.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:42:14 -0400 (EDT)

Framers--

Has anyone ever had little invisible square objects appear once in a while
on body pages of Frame documents? Are they some kind of "cookie"-like
object that Frame puts there for some reason?

I first noticed this when I had a graphic object on a page of a document,
and I went to select it by dragging a selection border around it. The
selection border also selected a tiny invisible square. Since I didn't know
what it was, I deleted it. I didn't notice any problem with the file after
I deleted it, but since I didn't put it there, I wondered what it was and
why it was there. I have run across this in other files, too.

Does anyone know what they are?
<<unsnip>>


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