How to iterate a story to find if a characterstyle is applied to its textranges?

[caterpillarjin]

Does source like below work?

characterStyle.parent == theStory.textRanges

One more questions is if there might be a CharacterAttribute who belongs no characterstyle? Can I iterate charaterstyles to know all the font, bold .. information for all teh textranges?

Message was edited by: caterpillarjin

[pixxxelschubser]

Create a textframe with min 1 character and run the following script.

Perhaps it's a little bit helpful.

// characterAttributes
var aDoc  = app.activeDocument;
var aChar = aDoc.textFrames[0].characters[0];
alert (aChar.characterAttributes.size)
alert (aChar.characterAttributes.alignment)
alert(aDoc.characterStyles.length)
alert(aDoc.characterStyles[0].characterAttributes.size)

In ESTK OMV you can see much more character attributes.

[CarlosCanto]

this covers the first question, select a text frame before running

var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var sel = idoc.selection[0];
alert(sel.textRange.characterStyles[0].name); // returns the first character style

[caterpillarjin]

The problem is I want to extract all text in a doc and get information like font, bold or so for every single text. For example:

bold: this is the text.

Instead of checking character attribute of each character, I'm think about iterate every characterstyle. So I need to know the parent of each characterstyle, right?

[pixxxelschubser]

Do you really mean characterstyle or paragraphstyle?

For character style, you have to loop through all the characters. And every char "without" characterstyle yet still have one  -->  aDoc.characterStyles[0]

[caterpillarjin]

How does characterStyle tell from each other? I found the name of these characterStyles all the same.

Are there any place in a doc used to save these characterStyles or characterAttributes? Also, I found the parent of these characterStyles the same. Then how can I know who does these characterStyle belong to?