🚀 go-pugleaf

For the variety I'll kick in with yet another possibility which I've been using for a while. It does the same as Martin's and Dave's script, but the approach is different. It creates character styles on the fly with attributes set (if the style doesn't already exist).

Peter



// attr2style takes two arguments: (1) a string to set the search 
// and the attribute value in the style, and (2) a name for the character style. 
attr2style( 'fontStyle = "Bold Italic"' , 'bolditalic' ); 
attr2style( 'fontStyle = "Bold"' , 'bold' ); 
attr2style( 'fontStyle = "Italic"' , 'italic' ); 
attr2style( 'position = Position.superscript' , 'super' ); 
attr2style( 'position = Position.subscript' , 'sub' ); 
attr2style( 'capitalization = Capitalization.smallCaps' , 'sc' ); 
attr2style( 'underline = true' , 'ul' ); 
attr2style( 'strikeThru = true' , 'strike' );

function attr2style( attr, st ) 
{ 
app.findPreferences = app.changePreferences = null; 
eval( 'app.findPreferences.' + attr ); 
app.changePreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = checkStyle( attr, st ); 
app.activeDocument.search( '', false, false, '' ); 
}

function checkStyle( attr, stylename ) 
{ 
if( app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item( stylename ) == null ) 
   { 
   app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add( { name : stylename } ); 
   eval( 'app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item( stylename ).' + attr ); 
   } 
return app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item( stylename ); 
}