How to detect a completely empty text frame (incl. no continued footnotes, no continued tables)

hi,

 

this problem i've ignored long time...

 

say have script deletes empty text frames. it's easy

find empty text frame like:

 

if (myframe.characters.length < 1) -- frame empty!

 

but ... doesn't work 2 cases (at least, can think of):

(1) if text frame contains second half of footnote

continued previous text frame(s); (2) if text frame contains

the second half of table continued previous text frame(s).

 

in both these cases (where frame contains second half of

table or footnote), simple way of checking whether frame

empty (as showed above) returns false positive -- character

length of frame 0, frame not empty.

 

any idea how solve this?

 

thanks,

ariel

 

especially continuation tables, tricky , messy, , cs5+ require different approaches earlier versions. if deleting frames end of textcontainers array, maybe can delete frames until last frame oversets. if does, put frame back.

 

it's easier unthread last frame. if previous frame not overset, delete last frame; if overset, restore thread.

 

peter

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