Graphic frames in a document...

hi to all,
I need all and only graphic frames of a document?
what is the right interface?
like InterfacePtr<IStoryList> for story of text frames...
thanks in advance!

Hi,
I think you can try this :
bool YourClass::IsGraphicFrame(const UIDRef& graphicFrameRef)
    InterfacePtr<IGraphicFrameData> graphicFrameData(graphicFrameRef, UseDefaultIID());
    // Test not nil
    return Utils<IPageItemTypeUtils>()->IsGraphicFrame(graphicFrameRef)
             || (graphicFrameData->IsGraphicFrame() && !graphicFrameData->HasContent());
Good luck

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I have found solutions for deleting empty text frames but not graphics frames. Can somebody help with this as it will save soo much time and RSI!
I found an applescript solution here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/756281
However, I am running Windows 7 and Id CC
Cheers,
Kris.

Hi MToys
I added a little to the script so that it will work on Ovals and Polygons also. [Not TextFrames]
You just have to set the values for which of the frame types you want to delete.
You can do this by setting the const values at the top of the script for DeleteRectangle, DeleteOvals, DeletePolygons
There are a few uncertainties that I had:
If an object is selected, should the script only delete that objects frame type.
I.e., If you select an oval, should the script know to delete only ovals.
At this point, I did not do that, rather it will just get the settings from the selected object, and delete all frame types with those settings
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I selected the oval and ran the script. It only deleted the oval even though set it to delete all.
I found that the transparency settings werent matching... even though there werent any
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If I understand you correctly, you placed the images without using Fit Frame To Contents and now you are trying to rectify this? Do you get that making just the frames larger, at this point, may make them overlapping others? If that's going to be a problem, just run the script again but this time with the correct settings ...
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Perhaps you've already explored using an unstroked table for this particular need. The baselines of text in your example seem to be aligned across the horizontal rows, and the divider lines also seem aligned on horizontal rows. The divider lines could be created by several means - underlines in cells, graphic lines in anchored frames in cells, or horizontal cell rulings.
The whole arrangement requires painstaking attention no matter how it's constructed, so the fussiness of working with a table wouldn't seem to add something that might not be needed with a different method. Because tables can break across frames, you'd need to set all rows to keep together.
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AIM::
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OBSERVATION::
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     Here in above function its required to set Parent Layer UIDRef and because of this all frames are getting paste in one layer.
Is there any way we can paste frame in there respective layers?
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Rahul Dalvi

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This worked great. Karen

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I thought I should provide an explanation for what I meant:
I am aware, of course, of how to use "Place". The issue here is that I have a Page that is a template, which includes a Graphic Frame. I want to open the page, and then update the Graphic Frame element's "href" tag with the path of a graphic file, and have that file then appear in the Graphics Frame. By default, InDesign does not redraw the Graphics Frame when you change the value for the "href" attribute - you need to drag the parent element onto the Graphics Frame.
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mlavie

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I found another thread mentioned this issue as well, without known solution.
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