Working with text frames

To create a text frame of a specific type in AppleScript, use the kind property of the text frame object

set myRect to make new rectangle in current document with properties
{position:{100, 700}, height:100, width:100}
set myAreaText to make new text frame in current document with properties
{kind:point text,contents:"Text Frame 1"}

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Threaded frames

As in the Illustrator application, you can thread area text frames or path text frames.

To thread existing text frames, use the next frame or previous frame property of the text frame object.

When copying the following script to your script editor, place the value of the contents property on one line. The long-line character (¬) is not valid within a string value.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
  make new document
  make new rectangle in current document with properties
    {position:{100, 500}, height:100, width:100}
  make new text frame in current document with properties
    {kind:area text, text path:the result, name:"tf1", contents:"This is two text frames linked together as one story, with text flowing from the first to the last. First frame content. "}
  make new rectangle in current document with properties
    {position:{300, 700}, height:100, width:100}
  make new text frame in current document with properties
    {kind:area text, text path:the result, name:"tf2", contents:"Second frame content." }
  --use the next frame property to thread the frames
    set next frame of text frame "tf1" of current document to
    text frame "tf2" of current document
  redraw
end tell

Threaded frames make one story object

Threaded frames make a single story object. To observe this, run the following AppleScript after running the script above.

display dialog ("There are " & (count(text frames of current document)) & " text frames.")
display dialog("There are " & (count(stories of current document)) & " stories.")