[CS4][JS] Accessing skewed text items

[Guest]

The following code snippet successfully finds all the skewed text in a
document and then removes the skew:

//Clear the find/change preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
//Search the document for all the skewed text
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 1;
// now remove all skews
app.changeTextPreferences.skew = 0;

However, I want to access each fragment of skewed text rather than
globally change them.

How do I access the collection of skewed text items as the
findTextPreferences does not seem to possess the required properties.

TIA

Doug Neale

[Peter Kahrel]

You say something like this:
>var myFound = app.activeDocument.findText();

which creates an array (myFound) of of all found items. You can process that array as usual, i.e.
>for (i = 0; i < myFound.length; i++)

> // do something with each myFound

Peter

[Guest]

Hi Peter,

I tried this on a single page document with some text set in italics:

//Clear the find/change preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
//Search the document for all the skewed text
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 1;

var myFound = app.activeDocument.findText();


if (myFound.length==0) {
alert("No skewed text was found");
}
else {
// ok we have some skewed text, now loop through each one
for (i =0; i < myFound.length; i++) {
var myTextObject = myFound;
var myText = myTextObject.Content;
}
}

and it always finishes up with the alert :-(
and debug confirmed that myFound.length was zero.

Should I be doing something else to find italic text?

Regards,

Doug Neale

[Peter Kahrel]

Well, you're searching text skewed by 1 degree, so you're not going to find italics. If that's what you're after, do app.findTextPreferences.fonStyle = 'Italic' instead.

Peter

[_Dave_Saunders_]

Italic and Skew are two different things. The skew value for text is an explicit number representing to angle of skew, so finding all skewed text is going to be a tad difficult. You might have to do it by exception, that is, look for a skew of zero and any text you don't find is skewed.

Dave

[Guest]

Thanks Guys,

That did the trick.

If the skewed text is initially in italics, it is picked up by looking
for all italic text.

If not, then I shall have to work through all the story textStyleRanges
one by one., and if there are tables present, every cell as well.

Regards,

Doug Neale