Creating Styles.. and then nesting styles

[lithodora]

Seems simple enough:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"

tell active document

  set myCharacterStyle to make character style with properties {name:"Year", size:26.0, fill color:"Paper", stroke color:"Black", stroke weight:0.75, font:"Helvetica", font style:"Black"}

  set myCharacterStyle to make character style with properties {name:"Years", size:18.0, fill color:"Black", stroke color:nothing, stroke weight:nothing, horizontal scale:80.0, vertical scale:80.0, font:"Helvetica", font style:"Black"}

  set myParagraphStyle to make paragraph style with properties {name:"Year"}

  set nested styles of myParagraphStyle to {{applied character style:"Year", repetition:1, inclusive:false, delimiter:any word}, {applied character style:"Years", repetition:2, inclusive:true, delimiter:any word}}

end tell

end tell

The font and the point size do not come through when the style is created. The nested styles also do not come through.

I tried applied font:"Helvetica" to get 'font family not available'. Also, font:font "Helvetica"...

What I get right now I is no font defined or size. The rest works.

So what am I doing wrong here?

[Mary Posner]

Try this:

applied font: "Helvetica     Black"

Note that there's a tab between the font name and the font style. 

[-hans- · Accepted solution]

Hi lithodora,

as Mary Posner wrote a character style doesn't have the property 'font', but 'applied font' and 'font style'.

"... specified as either a font object or the name of font family."

just look it up in the dictionary ...

Try always to work with references.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"

    --you've got to set myHelvetica to your needs!

    set myHelveticas to (font family of every font whose name contains "Helvetica") --will return the helvetica font familiy names

    set myHelvetica to item 1 of myHelveticas --just randomly pick one for my example, hoping it's got a 'black' style 😉 ...

    tell active document

        set myCharacterStyle01 to make character style with properties {name:"test", size:26.0, fill color:"Paper", stroke color:"Black", stroke weight:0.75, applied font:myHelvetica, font style:"Black"}

        set myCharacterStyle02 to make character style with properties {name:"tests", size:18.0, fill color:"Black", stroke color:nothing, stroke weight:nothing, horizontal scale:80.0, vertical scale:80.0, applied font:myHelvetica, font style:"Black"}

        set myParagraphStyle to make paragraph style with properties {name:"nextTest"}

        tell myParagraphStyle

            make new nested style with properties {applied character style:myCharacterStyle01, repetition:1, inclusive:false, delimiter:any word}

            make new nested style with properties {applied character style:myCharacterStyle02, repetition:2, inclusive:true, delimiter:any word}

        end tell

    end tell

end tell

[lithodora]

Thank you for the help!

I had tried the applied font first, but had changed my approach due to the properties returned of the existing style. It didn't have a property for applied font, but did have font. That is why I had gone that way.

Rather than use a repeat to step through every Helvetica till I come up with one that works I have followed what Mary posted which works. I can't believe I forgot to use the Tab.

Again, thank you both for the help.