Find font, if nothing find then no need to put char style

[Murali_Vetha]

Hi All,

In the below coding is to find Italic and apply char style, if there is no char style then add new char style, But in my code doing if there is no Italic created new char style, but I need if there is no italic font nothing to do. Please advice.

app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences =null;

app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;

app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle ="Italic";

app.findTextPreferences.position = Position.NORMAL;

app.findTextPreferences.capitalization = Capitalization.NORMAL;

  try{

  app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle ="15 Italic";

  app.documents.item(0).changeText();

  }

  catch(e){

  app.documents.item(0).characterStyles.add({name:"15 Italic", fontStyle:"Italic"});

  app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle ="15 Italic";

  app.documents.item(0).changeText();

  }

Regards,

Vetha

[Peter Spier]

Moved to the scripting forum....

[Chinnadk]

Hi Vetha,

Try this,

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var italic = doc.characterStyles.item("15 Italic");
if(!italic.isValid)
{
          italic = doc.characterStyles.add({name:"15 Italic", fontStyle:"Italic"})
    }
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences =null;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle ="Italic";
app.findTextPreferences.position = Position.NORMAL;
app.findTextPreferences.capitalization = Capitalization.NORMAL;
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle =italic;
app.documents.item(0).changeText();

Regards,

Chinna

[Sajeev Sridharan]

hope the below code suits your requirement,

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences =null;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ".+";    
app.findGrepPreferences.fontStyle ="Italic";
app.findGrepPreferences.position = Position.NORMAL;
app.findGrepPreferences.capitalization = Capitalization.NORMAL;
var found = app.activeDocument.findGrep();   
  try{
  app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle ="15 Italic";
  app.documents.item(0).changeGrep();
  }
  catch(e){
  if(found.length>0){
    app.documents.item(0).characterStyles.add({name:"15 Italic", fontStyle:"Italic"});
    app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle ="15 Italic";
    app.documents.item(0).changeGrep();
    }
  }

Vandy

[Kai Rübsamen]

or this one:

var curDoc = app.activeDocument;

app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;  
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;  
app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = "Italic";  
app.findTextPreferences.position = Position.NORMAL;  
app.findTextPreferences.capitalization = Capitalization.NORMAL;  

var findResult = curDoc.findText();

if ( findResult.length > 0 ) { 
  var italic = curDoc.characterStyles.item( "15 Italic" );  
  if ( !italic.isValid ) {  
    italic = curDoc.characterStyles.add({ name: "15 Italic", fontStyle: "Italic" });
  } 
  app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = italic;  
  curDoc.changeText();
}
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences =null;