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Anonymous
October 26, 2009
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Font Select

  • October 26, 2009
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Hi, i have this problem when i run a scrit and create a style i want to select a otf font but if is pre-select the script run else if i don't pre-select scritp indesign return error:

     Font Family request is not avaiable

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Correct answer Jongware

Can you (at the very least!) show how you select this font? It seems that your command isn't doing anything -- if it only works if you select the font manually but it doesn't if you don't.

Perhaps your initial combination of font and style is not valid? For example, this

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].fontStyle = "65 Bold";

will not work if the selected base font is not Univers. One way to select an entire font plus style is

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Univers LT Std\t65 Bold");

-- note the TAB inbetween the font family and style name.

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Jongware
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Community Expert
October 26, 2009

Can you (at the very least!) show how you select this font? It seems that your command isn't doing anything -- if it only works if you select the font manually but it doesn't if you don't.

Perhaps your initial combination of font and style is not valid? For example, this

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].fontStyle = "65 Bold";

will not work if the selected base font is not Univers. One way to select an entire font plus style is

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Univers LT Std\t65 Bold");

-- note the TAB inbetween the font family and style name.

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Anonymous
October 27, 2009

I create a style:

var style = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.add();

Then i select fontFamily

style.appliedFont = "Helvetica Neue LT Std";

But if i don't preselect font indesign return FontFamily request is not avaiable.

Preselect is select font by Select.

It function if i insert a param String but if i insert by a variables it return FontFamily not avaiable:

var font = "Helvetica Neue LT Std";

style.appliedFont = app.fonts.item(font);

I am very stupid....

Thank's.

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