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• How to choose a character style instead of the entire text selection when running a script?

  I have a script, which, after having selected the text, can change the appearance of the figures. This action, therefore, covers all the numbers in the document to help:

  
  

  01 If (app.selection.length! = 1)

  [... here, the rest of the script]
  

  
  

  How do I change this line to apply changes only to those numbers until the tag with a specific character style?

  
  

  Thank you.

  
  

  I tried to change this line which is to select all the numbers:

  If (app.selection.length! = 1).

  This line is all, but by selecting all numbers. It only checks if there is more than one selected item. Selection of texts always returns the length of 1. That's why this review.

  And given what I've offered before, all you have to do in Jongware script to match your needs is to add app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = theStyle;

  Before findGrep().

  HTH

  Loïc

  http://www.ozalto.com

• Delete all character styles and preserve the formatting

  Hi scripters

  I need to remove all the character style using preserve in my document formatting option.

  How can I do this with that I started.

  myDoc = app.activeDocument;

  for (var j = 0; myDoc.characterStyles.length > j; j ++)

  {

  //

  }

  Thanks in advance

  concerning

  a you are the

  During the withdrawal of points, always looping backward (j-) so that your reference is still valid.

• How to use GREP to apply the character style just for the first and the second line of the paragraph?

  as the title, I just want to ask how to apply the style of character just for the 1st and 2nd line of the paragraph. Help me pls, tks!

  Can you show the screen shot with the invisible market, looks like you feedback after each line.

  So, something like this would work where I have a return forced for the linebreak (shift + return). The example on the right does not work because the line break is a return:

  

• GREP style - apply character style to the opening and closing parentheses surrounding a 0 (but not 0)

  Hello

  I'm relatively new to GREP style and will have to put in shape about 600 postcards containing various data (via the merger of data), including phone numbers. Consider the following data set:

  1. + 44 (0) 123467800

  2 (©) copyright

  3. (name of the program)

  I want to tell Indesign to stagger the opening and the closing parenthesis of the baseline (with a character style), but only the bracket that include a 0 and, possibly, without affecting the 0 value between them.

  Seems like an easy task, but it is impossible to find a solution. Could someone help?

  Thank you very much

  Antonio

  

• Table of contents, problems in applying the character style

  Hi all

  This is my first post, I checked if there was already something similar, but I can't find anything so I'm asking here.

  I work with Indesign 9.3 and I created a book of 80 pages and there are 20 + chapters.

  I wanted to create a table of contents, so I made an and I put my paragraph for her style, but I had problems to set the character style (he set only to the number of the page, but not to the number and the name of the chapter).

  When I create my summary style I have no problem to indicate the paragraph style that you want to use (and then it automatically applies it properly when I generate my list).

  The problem I want to solve, is that I need that my table of contents automatically the value of the character style, cause, for the moment, I have to apply it after its generation.

  Sorry for my bad English, I hope you understood

  Concerning

  Filippo

  In this case you must use the character for numers style nested within the paragraph style

  I'm usually two independent sparagraph styles (primary materials) chapters and sections (toc details). In this way, you can add a different same nested character style to stand them.

  Addibn later - style, it is not good idea. After the update of the table of contents, you have lost the

  macpawel

• Is it possible to update a character style with the changes I made to the selected text?

  I use InDesign CS5 on OS X Yosemite.

  I don't really know the best way to put it, so I hope that this scenario makes sense.

  Let's say I have a document with a few styles of different characters, and on one page of the document, I decided that I would try something different for a title that has an applied character style - this style is applied to all titles at the same level on the rest of the document. I do not adjust the style of character, however, but simply adjust the setting in shape in the upper character Panel. After playing for awhile, I have decide that I'm really this new setting in shape and want to apply as a result of the document, but now I don't have a character for this style.

  I know that I could just make a new style of form the title I have changed, then go back into the rest of the document and apply it to other styles. However, since this title still has the original style applied (just with overrides), I would like to know if there is a quick way to update the style based on the new formatting?

  I hope that makes sense.

  Thank you for your help in advance.

  With the substituted text still selected (you will see a + next to the character name of the Style in the character Styles Panel), choose the Style to redefine in the character Styles Panel menu.

• CS5: Hyperlink to anchor text in the character style?

  Is it possible to script the following:

  A text has several occurrences of the same string, for example "A10". One is marked with a character style "Anchor" and others are marked by a character style "link." The idea is to create anchors text style "Anchor" then find all occurrences of the character 'Link' style and create a hyperlink to the corresponding anchor.

  I managed to find a script that creates a character style "Anchor" text anchors Can anyone offer suggestions on how to make script creating the links?

  Written by Kasyan Servetsky

  March 13, 2011

  // http://www.Kasyan.HO.com.UA

  / / e-mail: [email protected]

  //======================================================================================== =================================

  If (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit ("Please open a document and try again.");

  const gScriptName = "create anchor text."

  const gScriptVersion = "1.0";

  gDoc var = app.activeDocument;

  If (! gDoc.characterStyles.item("Anchor").isValid) ErrorExit ("Character style \"Anchor\"n'existe No.");

  CreateDestinations();

  //======================================================== FUNCTIONS  =====================================================

  function CreateDestinations() {}

  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '. '. + » ;

  app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = gDoc.characterStyles.item ("Anchor");

  var found = gDoc.findGrep ();

  var destCounter = 0;

  for (var j = finds.length - 1; j > = 0; j-) {}

  var found = found [j];

  try {}

  If (! gDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.itemByName (found.contents) .isValid) {}

  var hypTextDest = gDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.add (found);

  hypTextDest.name = found.contents;

  destCounter ++;

  }

  }

  {catch (e)}

  }

  If (destCounter == 0) {}

  Alert ("no anchor text were created.", gScriptName + "-" + gScriptVersion);

  }

  Else if (destCounter == 1) {}

  Alert ("a text anchor is created.", gScriptName + "-" + gScriptVersion);

  }

  ElseIf (destCounter > 1) {}

  Alert (destCounter "text anchors have been created.", gScriptName + "-" + gScriptVersion);

  }

  }

  //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------

  function ErrorExit (error, icon) {}

  warning (error, gScriptName + "-" + gScriptVersion, icon);

  Exit();

  }

  //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------

  Hello

  The path is:

  create a hyperlinkTextDestination;

  create a hyperlinkTextSources;

  Create hyperlinks using a single destination and sources;

  so:

  // to create hyperlinks alike:    one destination==>many sources
  // destination is the 1st occurrence of text with charStyle "anchor" applied
  // sources are each occurrences of text with charStyle "link" applied
  
  var mDoc = app.activeDocument;
  
  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
  app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = mDoc.characterStyles.item("anchor");
  
  var
       mAnchor = mDoc.findText()[0],
       mDest;
  
  if (mAnchor) mDest = mDoc.hyperlinkTextDestinations.add(mAnchor,{name: mAnchor.words[0].contents});
  else {alert ("no anchor found"); exit(); }
  
  app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = mDoc.characterStyles.item("link");
  
  var
       mSource = mDoc.findText(),
       len = mSource.length,
       currSource, currHyper;
  
  if (!len) {alert ("no link found"); exit(); }
  
  while (len-->0) {
       currSource = mDoc.hyperlinkTextSources.add(mSource[len],{name: "sourceLink_" + len});
       currHyper = mDoc.hyperlinks.add(currSource, mDest, {name: "mHyperlink_" + mDest.name + "_" + len});
       }
  
  app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
  

  Jarek

• CS3: GREP find/change with the character Style?

  Hello

  Was surfing autour through various resources, but have not been able to understand how / if possible...

  Basically, all along of a wide catalogue, there are a lot of situations with lines of text like this:

  CF2 = Double caramel icing

  and I want to look for this string and apply a character style to just the "CF2" who will be "BOLD".

  Is this possible?

  Thank you!

  Andrew

  Search

  \bCF2 (? == double caramel icing)

  Put your character style "BOLD" in the field of formatting to replace.

  Change all.

• Add the new SMALL CAPS character style

  Hi scripters

  I am trying to create the new character style. Here's the code to create italic character style bold

  If (myDoc.characterStyles.item ("BI") == null) {}
  myDoc.characterStyles.add ({name: "BI", fontStyle: "Bold Italic"}) ;}

  the amount of the fine. My problem is I want to create the SMALL CAPS character style, what is the syntax for that?

  Thanks in advance

  concerning

  a you are the

  Well, it depends on what small caps you want. If it is small capitals, you can create it with:

  myDoc.characterStyles.add ({name: "SC", capitalization: Capitalization.SMALL_CAPS})

  Otherwise, if you want to OpenType Small Caps (which may or may not work, depending on the font you're using)

  myDoc.characterStyles.add ({name: "SC", capitalization: Capitalization.CAP_TO_SMALL_CAP})

  It's all in the object model viewer. You can find it by going to help-> ExtendScript Toolkit object model viewer

• [JS] [CS3] Apply the character Style to the first word

  I'm a noob that Javascript is concerned, and I expected a little guidance.

  Here is my scenario: I have a book that was composed in a single file; the main content is in a story. I want to select the first word in each block of text on each page and apply a character style. My goal is to use this character style to indicate the page breaks in the XML document - I maps to a specific tag style.

  So far, I have this poor specimen:

  myDocument var = app.activeDocument;
  myPage var = myDocument.pages.item (1);
  var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.item (0);

  
  If (app.activeDocument.stories [0] .paragraphs [0] .words [0]! = null)
  myTextFrame.paragraphs.item (0).words.item (0) = .appliedCharacterStyle
  myDocument.characterStyles.item ('foo');

  I know, I did not implement any kind of loop again (which will be more complicated given that there will be some blank backs, etc.). What I try to do in this is to select the first word in the first paragraph on the second page - which it does in reality. It's the first paragraph of the second begins on the first page, so I select that word on the first page, second page.

  As I said, a lot of work to do but a bit of help on getting to the right word would be most appreciated.

  Well, you were on the right track, but the "myText" test fails if there is no block of text on a page, because it fails a line earlier

  > var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.item (0);

  just before that, you must test the number of blocks of text:

  If (myPage.textFrames.length > 0)

  {

  ... your stuff...

  }

  Use it only if you are absolutely positive that there is just a block of text on each page! A slightly better way would be to always loop on each textframe:

  for (frames = 0; frames

  {

  var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.item (frames);

  .. etc.
  }

  in this case you don't have test his first length (the loop will not be executed if there is zero text blocks).

  [Grumpy] Since you have only a continuous story, an even better way would be to loop on texts related to this single story executives. You must identify the story somehow, and I usually click on the text cursor in the one that I need:

  monarticle = app.selection [0] .parentStory;

  or you can rely on the fact that the story begins as part of text on page 1:

  monarticle = app.activeDocument.pages [0] .stories [0];

  (I think this should work.) Then, each frame of the story until the end can be found in the table

  myStory.textContainers

  which are usually text blocks. Make a loop on them to help

  for (image = 0; frame)

  {

  myTextFrame = myStory.textContainers [frame];

  .. etc.

  }

• Orthographic inDesign - ignoring the reference numbers in the tables

  I have a document of 100 pages with several tables.  Each table contains many numbers of different parts, some letters including and others do not.  We do not have any specific format.  Is it possible that I can get the spell check to ignore any word that contains a number in my entire document?  I want to still come out check to check the tables because there are other things other than the numbers of room inside.  I tried using GREP styles to achieve this, but I can't make it work.  Help, please!

  Create a character style that affects the Language of No attribute and apply it to part numbers (use a find/replace query to find them). Does not take into account no. language spell check words.

• The list of the outline width can be changed?

  Is it possible to edit the list of choices of digital race in this menu drop-down?

  Also, when I put units "inches" for stroke (via prefs.), the little box in the toolbar displays the width of the line in decimal form (inches), but when I click on the drop down menu to change, it changes to show the widths in 'points '.

  Is this normal? It is certainly confusing.

  Any way to change the list to have just my most commonly used decimal inch weight?

  What is the smallest weight possible STROKE I come in that will come out the smallest possible line that the output device is capable?

  Go to users > yourname > library > Application Support > Adobe > AICS3/4 > new Document profiles. Open the file that you use most often, or whatever it is you want to change. In the menu window > Type > open character in the character Panel. Select the character Style. It should be noted the line of Normal Character Style. In the Launcher (small triangle in the upper-right) select the character Options of Style. A new dialog box opens where you can define what the police want to be your basic policy. Close and save. Restart HAVE and create a new document. It must use the new font you have chosen. With regard to the graphic Styles to replace the default one (at the top left in the window of the control panel) to make an object with the stroke and fill desired as a default. Drag it with the Option key pressed on the default swatch in the Panel of graphic Style (a thick line will give an overview of the sample) and liberation. Save the file. When you start a new file, this will be your default background/outline.

• BUG: Character styles does not, plus sign and redefine style gray

  Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, the feature of character styles seem to be broken.

  When I select a character and want to create a new style of character formatting, the menu will not let me. The sign is not clickable. This is clearly a bug and should be fixed because it annihilates completely the reusability of the layouts for Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

  In the screenshot below, I select (highlight) a character that is part of a paragraph style with the style named body, displayed in the form of body + in paragraph styles.

  The changes to the formatting should let me save in the form of a character style, but the sign is grey. Redefine the style of the menu item is grayed out as well.

  

  This behavior started during a few Mac OS x versions.

  What can I do about it?

  Using Pages v5.6.2 on OS X 10.11.5.

  As long you select text including the existing character style is zero, the ability to add (blue sign) a new character style is denied. Just as this is true, whenever I changed the fonts or the attributes of a letter, a word or group of either, the possibility to add a new character style became available.

  Apple did not have a special version of Pages for me, and I can't reproduce what you're proclaiming as a BUG.

• Character styles do not work in Pages

  I'm on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-2014, retina), running 10.10.5 (14F1021) and run pages v. 5.6.1

  It's pretty simple: I'm searching the internet apple documentation and Web sites.

  To the title of the pane 'format' to the right of the workspace, there is an option below 'police' called 'Styles of character ".  There is no way, in this latest version, to create a new character style.  No selection there will allow you to press the symbol '+', and there is no menu in the menu bar you option to create a character style.

  Despite trying several ways of dozens to understand this point, there is no work around.  I think it's a bug.

  Please fix this Apple?  I love the pages, but boy, this can be frustrating.

  Thank you!

  I use Pages on El Capitan 10.11.1 v5.6.1. I can define a character style.

  Try the following:

  1. Type a word or two. Select them.
  2. Press command + T to launch the Panel font
  3. In the toolbar, click the selector bar and in this menu, choose color
     1. Choose red
     2. Unique, choose the menu bar (you now have a single, red strikethrough)
  4. Selected always your text
     1. Click Character Styles picker
     2. The + symbol is now blue
        1. Click on + to add
        2. Change the new name of red bar, then press return to set.
     3. Click on any character Style
     4. Click the character crossed Red style to test.

  If you want any style of character custom for later use, you will need to make a custom template for new documents, or simply a model of style that you can open separately and then using the Format menu, styles of copy/paste between your model as well as the current document.