Question

I am building an InDesign panel with ExtendScript which finds text and shows it to the user. To do this, I use the showText() method of the Character object. The problem is that sometimes the text I’m looking for doesn’t appear because, even though the method does show the right page at the right place, the text has overflown and is not visible.

Is there a way to check if the text is visible or not? Ideally, I would like to be able to fall back on the story editor if the text cannot be seen as-is…

Answer 1

You may call the baseline property for the text in a try/catch statement. If text is visible, baseline will return a value, otherwise it will raise an error.

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