Change UI Font size in indesign using javascript

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi All,

How ti change UI font size in indesign using javascript. 

Os : MAc

Thanks

Balaji Murugesan

[brian_p_dts]

For the script UI, Page 81 of Peter Kahrel's Scripting UI for Dummies discusses this in detail: 

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/scriptui.html

There is no option for the regular InDesign interface. 

[Sunil Yadav · Accepted solution]

Try this:

var dialog = new Window("dialog"); 
var statictext1 = dialog.add("statictext", undefined, undefined, {name: "statictext1"}); 
statictext1.text = "This 30 pt"; 
statictext1.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont("Helvetica", "Bold", 30);
dialog.show();

P.S. : ScriptUI.newFont() for ScriptUI will only show effect in InDesign CC 2017 or lower. In New version is not working.

Best

Sunil

[Dirk Becker]

Please stop cross-posting to unrelated forum "topics" (former sub-forums) - any but "Scripting" in this case.

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi Dirk,

I cant understand this...

Thanks

[brian_p_dts]

You tagged this post with the following categories: 

Activation billing and install, Bug, EPUB, Feature request, How to, Import and export, InCopy workflow, Performance, Scripting, SDK, Server developers, Sync and storage, Type

He's saying don't overtag your posts with irrelevant topics. Tags are how users search for useful information on these forums, and this post is not relevant to "Activation, billing and install", for example. 

[Laubender]

Hi together,

properties like point size, font etc. do not work anymore with ScriptUI since InDesign version 9.

A long-standing bug. Never fixed.

Sunil's code with InDesign CS6 version 8.1:

The same code with e.g. InDesign 2021:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Jeffosaure]

Same isue with Illustrator

Why ?????

[Laubender]

Hi @Jeffosaure ,

it's a bug with ScriptUI. So this happens in all products that utilize ScriptUI.

Among them InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )