My Project of the auto-typo-adobe-id course at FH Potsdam....so far

121005_split_and_arrange.js

/*
	Once this script does something it should split up a Text at specified words, characters, scentences etc.
	The resulting snipets should then be used as visual representation for the amount of text in different ways......
*/

//general, global document dimensions
var pw = 400;
var ph = 400;

var margins = {
	t	: 12,
	r	: 12,
	l	: 12,
	b	: 12
}

//get some initial text to work with
//var myText = TextFrameContents.PLACEHOLDER_TEXT;

var myTextfile = File.openDialog("Choose your File", "*.*", false);
var myText;

if (myTextfile != null) {
	myTextfile.open('r');
	myText = myTextfile.read();
}

//Array containing the snippets of text
var snippets = new Array();

//Array containing the words/characters the text should get splitted at
var splittingChars = ["x", "y", "z"];

//create new document and set preferences
var doc = app.documents.add({
	documentPreferences: {
		pageWidth	: pw,
		pageHeight	: ph,
		facingPages	: false
	}
});

var page = doc.pages.item(0);

/*with (page.marginPreferences){
	top 	= margins.t;
	right 	= margins.r;
	bottom 	= margins.b;
	left 	= margins.l;
}*/

page.marginPreferences.properties = {
	top 	: margins.t,
	right 	: margins.r,
	bottom 	: margins.b,
	left 	: margins.l
};

//add textFrame, filling out the whole page
var tf = page.textFrames.add({
	geometricBounds : [margins.t, margins.l, ph - margins.b, pw - margins.r],
	contents 		: myText
});

tf.lines[0].pointSize = 20;


for(var i = 0; i < myText.length; i++) {
	myText.split(" ");
}