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ein_armer_Indesignuser
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November 3, 2009
Question

Setting properties of a new (text) paragraph style

  • November 3, 2009
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Hello,

In the GUI it is possible to create a new paragraph style and give it a Font, Fontsize and color. How can I do this with my plugin?

Currently I do the following:

// create a new named paragraph style

newParaStyle = resources.CreateParaStyle( ai::UnicodeString( styleName, kAIPlatformCharacterEncoding).as_ASUnicode().c_str() );

IParaFeatures paraFeatures;

paraFeatures.SetJustification( kRightJustify);

// setting more features
// and apply it to newParaStyle

newParaStyle.SetFeatures( paraFeatures);

But I need to provide this newParaStyle also with some charFeatures like Font, Fontsize and a color like in the GUI.

ICharFeatures  has all the properties I need, so I can do this:

ICharFeatures charFeatures;

charFeatures.SetFontSize( pointSize );

AIFontKey fontKey;

iErr = sAIFont->FindFont( fontName, kAIAnyFontTechnology, kRomanAIScript, true, &fontKey );

if (iErr) throw (iErr);

FontRef fontRef;

iErr = sAIFont->FontFromFontKey( fontKey, &fontRef );

if (iErr) throw (iErr);

IFont iFont( fontRef);

charFeatures.SetFont( iFont);

aSwatch = sAISwatchList->GetSwatchByName( colList, ai::UnicodeString( colName) );

iErr = sAISwatchList->GetAIColor( aSwatch, &colorP);

ApplicationPaintRef paintRef = nil;

sAIATEPaint->CreateATEApplicationPaint( &colorP, &paintRef);

IApplicationPaint paint( paintRef);

charFeatures.SetFillColor( paint);

charFeatures.SetFillOverPrint( ovpFill);

iErr = sAISwatchList->GetSwatchList( docP, &colList);

But how can I attach this charFeatures to my Paragraph? In the GUI the Paragraphsdialog also takes character features. Where are these hidden charFeatures and how are they accessible?

Michael

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A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
November 4, 2009

The GUI's combination of the two sets of (supposedly) distinct paragraph & character properties confuses me as well. I'm not sure how that actually is reflected in their code, but as far as I can tell they're distinct in code. I think you'd just call SetLocalCharFeatures() and SetLocalParaFeatures() on your ITextRange to apply both. If that doesn't work, I'm not sure how to combine them.

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ein_armer_IndesignuserAuthor
Known Participant
November 4, 2009

Hello Andrew,

yes, as far as we don't see an other way to give the text the desired features thats the way I have to go. But having in the GUI a paragraph with character features that should be doable also from the SDK. Didn't Adobe telling us that near everything in Illustrator is done by plugins ;->>

So come on Adobe, how did you do it?

Michael

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