Copy All Anchored/Inline Objects to a New Layer

Few days ago on Adobe’s InDesign Scripting forum I found question about duplicating all anchored and inline objects to another layer. It’s quite simple task, and all we have to do, is to get all page items, and check item parent. If parent is Character, then it’s anchored/inline object. So, let’s take a look! 🙂

First we have to get all elements. We have two options: whole document, or just current page.

Active page:

//
var myItems = app.activeWindow.activePage.allPageItems;
//

Active document:

//
var myItems = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
//

Function:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var foundObjects = Array();

for(var i = 0; i < myItems.length; i++){
    if(myItems[i].parent instanceof Character){foundObjects.push(myItems[i]);}
}

if(foundObjects.length > 0){
    try{var myDestLayer = myDoc.layers.add({name:"Anchor/Inline Duplicates"});}
    catch(_){myDestLayer = myDoc.layers.item("Anchor/Inline Duplicates");}
    for(var i = 0; i < foundObjects.length; i++){
        var newDuplicate = foundObjects[i].duplicate(myDestLayer);
        newDuplicate.geometricBounds = foundObjects[i].geometricBounds;
        try{newDuplicate.graphics[0].geometricBounds = foundObjects[i].graphics[0].geometricBounds;}catch(_){}
    }
}

That’s it!

Have fun! 😀