I have 1600+ assets in my library that currently need rebranding, varying from facts sheets to long winded financial services application forms. Looking for the quickest solution to the problem. New fonts to be replacing old across all docs. Also, new cover and back pages needed throughout. Are there any scripts that can help batch update this?
How do I target a particular font in the Find/Change dialog?
You can record the settings in the find/change dialog box using this script.
Here's my Change fonts CSV script with detailed instructions.
Important note
In my practice, I encountered a problem when replacing fonts with a script in old (converted) documents: the fonts failed to change for some reason. The solution was simple: export files to IDML and import them back to INDD format. That’s why I added support for IDML files in my Batch processor script's new version — 5.
Also, font names can be inconsistent in the font itself which prevents the script from working.
Can you locate them by font size, weight etc?
As far as I remember, targeting the exact font size by script is a tricky business.
For example, if you target, say, look for Arial-Bold 10 pt, it won't find it . I guess this happens because of some rounding error. Probably under the hood Indy thinks it's 9,999999999999999 pt.
The solution isn't on the surface!
My workaround was as follows:
Can you redefine para styles through this as well?
Yes. it's possible. See examples in the Styles section here.
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