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• Find the Format, Font Style, character Style, Find and change, Javascript or Applescript

  I'm trying my first cry to a script and I need help. I downloaded all kinds of example, but most are too elaborate.

  Here's what I'm trying to do:

  A search/replace, then the Find Format (Formats of basic characters; Font style "Italic")

  Then

  Change in Format (character Style; 'my style')

  I tried to create this in Applescript and ExtendScriptToolkit.

  Yesterday, I read intro Adobes Script PDF... Now, I don't know if I am more confused or understand what is happening.

  Here is my attempt-

  {

  cstyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add({name:simple_italic});)

  If (italic) cstyle.fontStyle = app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle;

  }

  }

  app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = simple_italic;

  app.activeDocument.selection [0].parent.changeText (false);

  }

  Is - this even close?

  Thank you, T-

  

  

  

  I found my own answer... Thank you guys!

  {

  If (StyleName == "")

  {

  Make up a name

  If (in bold)

  StyleName = "simple_bold";

  If (italic)

  {

  If (in bold)

  StyleName = "simple_bold_italic";

  on the other

  StyleName = "simple_italic";

  }

• How can I find character applied to a particular paragraph styles

  I have to loop through the paragraphs in my InDesign document and for each of them, to see what character styles are applied in the paragraph. For a given paragraph, how can I find the character applied to the paragraph styles? Thank you very much.

  Rick Quatro

  Hmmm, not-so-easy. Thinking out loud:

  All objects of 'Text' generally have a "appliedCharacterStyle" property, but curious to this (and all other properties) when there is a multiple applied to the element that you are curious - in your case, according to paragraph - will lead to is a (null) or just pop up an error message.

  Try a loop on his TextStyleRanges. It has a few drawbacks: first, you will visit each kind of substitution, regardless of how it is applied. and secondly, I believe that this property in its current incarnation is suffering from a bug tiny weeny, eeny, where the final text style range will be happily 'leave' the current paragraph and continue in the following, if formatting is unchanged.

  I have to try to be sure, but I think that even a completely empty character style will be reported as a separate 'Beach'. But note that the reverse is not true: not all distinct ranges is a style of its own character. any manual formatting within a text character style will appear to "split" the character style range in two or more parts.

• I'm looking for links Hypertext in find/replace the dialogue (without applying a character style).

  I have 7000 hyperlinks in my document, with different character styles ("italic", "bold" and "italic +"BOLD""). I need to apply the blue color to each of them. If I ask a new character style "hyperlink" to all, I'll lose my formatting.

  Is there a way to find hyperlinks (for themselves, not their format) dialog find/replace in order to create and apply 4 different character styles ('hyperlink_regular', 'hyperlink_bold', 'hyperlink_italic' and ' hyperlink_bold + italic")?

  Sorry for my English, thanks for the help!

  Use Javascript!

  You can use this Javascript, for example. (Instructions on how to use a JavaScript in InDesign can be found elsewhere).

  blue = app.activeDocument.swatches.item("Blue");
  for (a=0; a
  Take care to provide the correct color swatch name in the first line.
  		   

• With the help of FindChangeList.jsx - can't find text AND character style?

  I have been using the "FindChangeList.jsx" script in CS5 and it works well for what I need, except for one thing: ideally I want to pick up a piece of text with a certain style of applied character. Is it possible to do something like

  Text {findWhat: 'some text', appliedCharacterStyle: 'character style name'}

  I tried the above, but it is basically ignored the character style and found all of the text corresponding to the sentence (unknown what character style has been applied). Any ideas?

  Thank you very much. HJ

  Problem solved-, I made two mistakes. First of all, the style is a paragraph not one style style character, and secondly, it has been grouped into a folder. So I moved out of the folder and changed the code to ' appliedParagraphStyle: ' (and everything worked fine.:).

  Thank you. HJ

• 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.

• find MANUALLY applied character styles

  Hi all

  We switch to an XML stream, and as one of our interim steps we are applying tags to paragraph and character styles in some of our documents. I am aware of the ability to map styles to tags and it should work for paragraph styles well. However, we are looking for a way to map only character styles that were applied manually.

  For example, we have a paragraph style for instructions which has some "BOLD" nestled at the beginning of each paragraph. In other places, the same style of characters may be used for "BOLD" a specific word, but it is applied manually. It is possible to map the tags THAN character styles that were applied manually? We do not want the labels identifying the character styles that have been applied through nested Styles or GREP Styles.

  I guess it would take some kind of script, that's why I write in the forum script. Anyone know if this is possible?

  Thanks in advance,

  Matthew

  Hi Matt,

  Please try to code below, hope this helps.

  applyTag("bold", "b");
  applyTag("italic", "i");
  
  function applyTag(StyleName, TagName)
  {
  app.findTextPreferences = null;
  app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = StyleName;
  list = app.activeDocument.findText();
  app.findTextPreferences = null;
  while (list.length)
  {
       next = list.pop();
       if (next.appliedCharacterStyle == app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(StyleName))
       {
            next.associatedXMLElements[0].xmlElements.add(TagName, next)
       }
  }
  }
  

  Shonky

• Application of large amount of copy character styles

  Hello!

  I am trying to apply character Styles to a large amount of copy and I can't understand it. I find tutorials on how to create them and use them, but I don't want to have to search all my text to style "italic". I hope that all makes sense. I thought that there was a way to apply a character Style to the text easily, but I can find no longer.

  I want to apply a character Style to some words in a large amount of text, and then apply Styles to a paragraph in the text box. actually not to change Styles of character to the breast.

  Does anyone know how to do this? Looks like it should be so simple!

  Thanks in advance!
  

  L.

  Is already italic text? If it is you can do a find/change GREP for. + and set the Format to find for italics, and then set the format change on your italic character style and change all. You should do this on a copy of the doc for safety.

• GREP search: match between character styles

  I fight with it, even if it sounds very simple.

  In a huge document, I need to find each space with these two features:

  (1) the space has no model of applied character

  (2) the space located between text1 and text2 which have the style applied X character.

  In other words:

  < text1 [Character Style X] > < space [Character Style None] > < Text2 [Character Style X] >

  How would you do that?

  The reason why you are struggling is that GREP can match two specified character styles, or two specified paragraph styles in the same time. This will require script.

• 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

• The different paragraph of distinct character style formatting

  Hello

  In my paper, I have bunch of paragraphs and each begins with the name (two or three words). Character style is applied to each name. Now, I want to add the paragraph after each name of each mark is so in its own paragraph. Of course, I can do it manually, hitting enter after each name, but I was wondering if there is a more efficient way through search/replace or perhaps GREP.

  Thank you!

  m

  Try this on a copy to be sure, but I think finding ^. + and set the format to find the character style, and then change to $0, you can also set the change of any character Style Format and a new paragraph Style that is applied by the character style formatting.

  This will probably leave you with a space at the end of the paragraph, or the beginning of the next. The location will depend on if the style is applied to the space. If this is the end of the paragraph, you can use find find ^(.+) (\s) and change to $1

  If it's at the beginning of the next paragraph, in my opinion, you need a second query, Find ^ /s (leave find it empty format or the value initially attributed the paragraph style) and do not fill the field exchange.

• Convert the local Word to indesign character style formatting

  Hello

  I have a Word doc with local formatting (no paragraph or character style)

  Is there a way I can convert all text which is Times New Roman Italic in a style of character so that I can format everything at the global level?

  Any help in this would be be surprising (250 pages)

  Find > Find format > basic character formats > Font Style > Italic

• Replace missing fonts by character style

  I placed the text from Word into InDesign and in paragraphs, there are here and there words that are in italics or bold italics. In the font I use, there are no italic or bold italic. I would like to replace these two styles of missing fonts by a character style [in which the text is asymmetrical] in one or two steps, without having to apply the asymmetrical character style Word by Word. When I try to use «Find the police...» ', InDesign only allows to replace a font missing ("David Italic' in this case) with a different font altogether. I want to use the same font ('David'), simply apply the character style where the font is missing. How can I apply a character style where the police don't lack - in one or two steps?

  Thank you.

  Nevermind - I figured it!

• Need to search and apply a character style sheet

  I have a directory with the name and address of the student. I need to find 2 returns and replace with 2 returns, apply the character style, back. Here is a screenshot so you can see what I mean screen.

  [Picture with private information removed by Moderator]

  Allen, Davis must be condensed ital "BOLD" like Ahmed, Ehsan is above. Any help appreciated.

  Post edited by: Peter Spier

  Right. I have the impression that there is. As always... may be wrong.