Convert highlighted text to Placeholder text in InDesign

Very strange. (Although "errors", plural, is a bit of an exaggeration, as I only get one. It's still a weird one, tho'.)

The script gets its text from your local version of the default Placeholder Text command, and to make sure you get the most of it, it temporarily sets the font to Times New Roman in 8 points. However, even though I have a perfectly normal default font set which includes Times New Roman, ID CC 2017 insists it cannot "find" the font when addressed in a script. It does work when selected manually, so the font itself is not a problem.

Fortunately, the placeholder text frame doesn't really need to know what font to use. So it works if you take out that particular line - I've done so below.

if (app.selection.length != 1 || app.selection[0].constructor.name != "TextFrame")
{
alert ("Ground. Pull up. Ground. Pull up."); exit(0);
}
// Save selection
targetStory = app.selection[0].parentStory.texts[0];
// Make a Lorem frame
loremFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add();
loremFrame.geometricBounds = [ "0mm","0mm", "200mm", "200mm" ];
// Hm? Surely this font USED TO BE available?
// loremFrame.insertionPoints[0].appliedFont = "Times New Roman";
loremFrame.insertionPoints[0].pointSize = 8;
loremFrame.contents = TextFrameContents.PLACEHOLDER_TEXT;
sourceStory = loremFrame.texts[0];
// Grab its words
sourceWords = sourceStory.words.everyItem().contents;
// .. and kill the placeholder
loremFrame.remove(0);
// Replace one word at a time. Start at the end.
sourceWord = 0;
destWord = 0;
while (destWord < targetStory.words.length)
{
targetStory.words[destWord].contents = sourceWords[sourceWord];
destWord++;
sourceWord++;
if (sourceWord >= sourceWords.length)
  sourceWord = 0;
}
alert ("Safe landing. Have a nice day.");

You could try using Rot 13 on the text. Copy the text then paste it into the form here. Copy and paste the result.

This will step all letters by 13 places in the alphabet, wrapping. So A becomes N, B becomes O, C becomes P, and so on. Punctuation in unaffected.

I updated a new design layout with approved formatted text from a previous layout. I chose to use the approved text because I know how long the length of each head and each paragraph are. I want the client to focus on the new design and not on the content, so I want to change the text to placeholder text temporarily. I did not want to create two layouts; one with place holder text and one with approved text. Kind of like changing the text to another language.

Became…

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