How to create various styles with scripts?

Question

I want to determine if the styles below exist before I run another script, and if they don't, then create new ones.

Paragraph style: pa
Character style: ch
Object style: ob
Table style:: mytable
cell style: cel

Thank you very much.

brian_p_dts · Accepted Answer

Can you tell me the table style, cell object style their names. You can search the entire scripting API. Here are the ExtendScript document methods and objects:https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Document.html To find proberties there is the document’s cellStyle, tableStyle, paragraphStyle, characterStyle, ObjectStyle. https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#CellStyle.html#d1e456077  Note for creating a new style you use the plural (i.e., d.cellStyles.add()) Here is a makeCellStyle function: var cs = makeCellStyle(app.activeDocument, "My Cell Style");//set the properties of the style named cscs.properties = {fillColor:"Black"};/*** Makes a new named Cell Style or get the style named n* @ param the document to add the style to * @ param style name * @ returns the new cell style */function makeCellStyle(d, n){  var cs;  try {      d.cellStyles.add({name:n});  }catch(e) {      cs = d.cellStyles.itemByName(n);  }   return d.cellStyles.itemByName(n);}     You can also have a universal function by referencing the document's relevant property via a string reference:  var makeStyle = function(doc, styleName, collection) {    doc[collection].add....} makeStyle(app.activeDocument, "pa", "paragraphStyles");

rob day · Answer

Paragraph style: pa Hi @dublove , I use this function to get or set a style. This makes a new style named "pa", then I can set the new or existing style’s properties. You can do the same for Character and Object styles var ps = makeParaStyle(app.activeDocument, "pa");//set the properties of the style named paps.properties = {basedOn:"[No Paragraph Style]", appliedFont:"Myriad ProRegular", pointSize:8, leftIndent:0};/*** Makes a new named Paragraph Style or get the style named n* @ param the document to add the style to * @ param style name * @ returns the new paragraph style */function makeParaStyle(d, n){  var ps;  try {      d.paragraphStyles.add({name:n});  }catch(e) {      ps = d.paragraphStyles.itemByName(n);  }   return d.paragraphStyles.itemByName(n);}

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