Find some characters and replace with character style...

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4 total messages Started by thiyagus5 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:06

#1677

Author: thiyagus5
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:06

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Hi everyone,

The below script is to find some space characters and replacing with character style. Its working fine with InDesignCS2 MAC.

//InDesign CS2//

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
with(app.activeDocument){
myNewCharStyle = characterStyles.add();
with(myNewCharStyle){
name= "x"
fontStyle = "Roman"
}}

app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;

myDoc.search("^>", false, false, undefined, undefined, {appliedCharacterStyle:"x"});
myDoc.search("^m", false, false, undefined, undefined, {appliedCharacterStyle:"x"});

////////

Now i am currently working in InDesignCS3, and i have also changed the script somewhat but its not working with CS3 MAC...

//InDesign CS3//

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
if (myDoc.characterStyles.item ('x') == null)
   myDoc.characterStyles.add ({name: 'x'});
var myNewCharStyle = myDoc.characterStyles.item ('x');

with(myNewCharStyle){
name= "x"
fontStyle = "Roman"
}

function setupFindText(myFindTextPreferences, myChangeTextPreferences, myNewCharStyle) {
app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.changeTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^>";
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myNewCharStyle;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^m";
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myNewCharStyle;

//

can anyone help me for this. Thanks in advance.

Regards
Thiyagu

Re: Find some characters and replace with character style...

#1686

Author: Olav_Kvern
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:11

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Hi Thiyagu,

You're not telling InDesign CS3 to do anything here:



app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^>";  
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myNewCharStyle;  
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^m";  
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myNewCharStyle;

You've set the find and change text preferences, but you haven't issued a command to change the text. What you need looks something more like this:



app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^>";  
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myNewCharStyle; 
//Add a line to perform the change: 
app.documents.item(0).changeText(); 
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^m";  
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myNewCharStyle;  
//Add a line to perform the change: 
app.documents.item(0).changeText();

It's also not clear to me that this will work:



if (myDoc.characterStyles.item ('x') == null)

I think that this will always be true, even if the style does not exist.

Thanks,

Ole

Re: Find some characters and replace with character style...

#1693

Author: thiyagus5
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:36

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Hi Ole,

Thanks for your kind support. Actually what i need is, find en space & em space characters in the InDesign CS3 document and apply character style for those characters. I have tested your script also its running but not performing the change action. Please look into this and help for this.

Regards
Thiyagu

Re: Find some characters and replace with character style...

#1695

Author: Olav_Kvern
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:08

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Hi Thiyagu,

If it's not working, it's most likely that the character style does not exist, or, if it does exist, it's inside a style group. Could that be the problem?

Thanks,

Ole

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