: Finding all TexFrame and TextPath objects in an InDesign document via scripting I'm looking for a fast way to extract all the TextFrame and TextPath objects in a document via scripting. I have

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I'm looking for a fast way to extract all the TextFrame and TextPath objects in a document via scripting.

I have a working implementation that works also for inline elements but it's really slow since it traverses all the objects recursively.

On a file with ~2000 elements (of them only 700 are TextFrames), this script takes 132 seconds to execute, which is a bit too much for a 2-year old i7 MBP.

This is the current implementation:
#include "undercorejs.js"

var allItems = [];

function recursiveSearchForTextObjects(elements) {
for (var j = 0; j < elements.length; j++) {
var child = elements[j];

if(child instanceof TextFrame || child instanceof TextPath){
if(_.indexOf(allItems, child) < 0){ // No dupes
allItems.push(child);
}
}

if(typeof child.allPageItems != "undefined"){
recursiveSearchForTextObjects(child.allPageItems);
}

if(typeof child.textPaths != "undefined"){
recursiveSearchForTextObjects(child.textPaths);
}

if(typeof child.groups != "undefined"){
recursiveSearchForTextObjects(child.groups);
}
}
}

var doc = app.activeDocument;
recursiveSearchForTextObjects(doc.allPageItems);


Is there a better way of extracting all the TextFrame/TextPath objects including the inline elements?

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