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Brollyus
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January 30, 2014
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Type Callout

  • January 30, 2014
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Is there a script that will “call out” (with labels) the text attributes? Everything from character style to paragraph settings (like space after)?

I am looking for an automated solution that works like Colorbreaker (http://www.gluon.com/product-colorbreaker-id.html) for inDesign CC. I have a lot of documents that I need to specify the type and color for use in a Brand Guideline book.

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Trevor:
Trevor:
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January 30, 2014

Just as a demo to show what info can be easily obtained (and not an answer)

Select some text and run this script.

#targetengine props
var select = app.selection[0];
if (!(select && select.hasOwnProperty ('textStyleRanges'))) {
    alert ("Select some text");
    exit();
    }
var   txtStyRan = select.textStyleRanges.everyItem().getElements().slice(0),
        l = txtStyRan.length,
        c = 0,
        selcProps = [], i, n, selct;
for (i = 0; i < l; i++) {
    selct = txtStyRan.properties;
    selcProps[c++] = "\r\r******   " + selct.contents + "  ******";
    for (n in selct) {
            try {selcProps[c++] = n + ": " + selct.toString() + ((selct.hasOwnProperty  ('name')) ? "(Name): " + selct.name : "");}
            catch (e) {selcProps[c++] = n + ": ** CAN'T ACCESS **";}
        };
}
var w = new Window ('palette'),
      e = w.add('edittext', [50,50, $.screens[0].right - 50, $.screens[0].bottom - 50], selcProps.join("\r"), {multiline: true});
w.show();
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