[CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

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6 total messages Started by Skempy Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14

#1355

Author: Skempy
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14

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Hello,

How do I set the default font for any new text frames I create.

I have several thousand InDesign templates in which the default font is set to a font that is no longer licenced and therefore requires changing.

I already have a script which will open each template and change the first insertion point of any (empty) text frame to a new font but any new text frames created in these templates still want to use the unlicensed font.

Thanks for any assistance.

Simon Kemp

Re: [CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

#1357

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:32

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for existing documents:
myDoc.textDefaults.appliedFont.name = "Arial\tRegular";
for newly created ones:
app.textDefaults.appliedFont.name = "Arial\tRegular";

Re: [CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

#1359

Author: Skempy
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:59

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Thanks for the reply Kasyan,

Does this work for CS2 documents?

Simon Kemp

Re: [CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

#1360

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:14

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      Does this work for CS2 documents?




No,CS2 doesn't support fonts.itemByName method.
I can't check it in CS2, because don't have CS2 version properly working any more.

Re: [CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

#1361

Author: Skempy
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:27

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Thanks,

This works in CS2:

app.activeDocument.textDefaults.appliedFont = "Helvetica LT Com";

Simon

Re: [CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

#1362

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:29

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I made a mistake in the previous post: to set default font for application I should have used application's font collection.

app.textDefaults.appliedFont = app.fonts.itemByName ('Arial\tBold');

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