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Hi everyone!
I have a document where the leading is not consistent across the paragraphs. I would like to set them all to "14.4.pt" and also add a 2 mm space before each paragraph. For that, I came up with the below the script, but for some reason nothing happens when I run it. Could anyone help me to figure out why?
And the spacing before? 🙂
By @James Gifford—NitroPress
doc.stories.everyItem().spaceBefore = "2mm";
@Rogerio5C09 -- Look no further than the two lines that @Robert at ID-Tasker suggested, repeated here for convenience:
doc.stories.everyItem().leading = '14.4pt';
doc.stories.everyItem().spaceBefore = '2mm';
This is all you need. But for interests' sake, apart from the comments that you didn't call your function, the function is inefficient because it resets the find/change preferences at every iteration. Get these settings out of the for-loop. o your script would look as follows:
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What you enter in the Find what and Change to fields.
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What you enter in the Find what and Change to fields.
By @Peter Kahrel
But it can be run globally on the whole document?
Or am I missing something?
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Did you try that?
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@Peter Kahrel I tried it just now and it worked as I expected, on multiple stories in the document. Are we talking about the same thing?
- Mark
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Ah, like that. But then you'll have to run it for 17, 18, 19, and 20 pts separately because you have to have something in the Find what field and/or the Find Format panel.
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Yep exactly! Easily done in 30 seconds. Just a funny observation.
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Funny indeed! Still, you'd have to hope that those four are the only point sizes used. But I take your point, a good one.
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How/where do you call your function fixLeading()?
Because you've declared it - but when/where do you run/execute it?
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@Robert at ID-Tasker I hate when I forget main() at the end of the code!
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Hi @Rogerio5C09, Robert and Brian noticed this, but I'm not sure if you understood. You have wrapped your code in a function `fixLeading`, with is fine, but nowhere in your code do you *call* the fixLeading function so nothing will happen when you run the code.
Add this line at the end:
fixLeading();
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@Rogerio5C09 -- Look no further than the two lines that @Robert at ID-Tasker suggested, repeated here for convenience:
doc.stories.everyItem().leading = '14.4pt';
doc.stories.everyItem().spaceBefore = '2mm';
This is all you need. But for interests' sake, apart from the comments that you didn't call your function, the function is inefficient because it resets the find/change preferences at every iteration. Get these settings out of the for-loop. o your script would look as follows:
function fixLeading(){
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var leadingPoints = ["17pt","18pt","19pt","20pt"];
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
app.changeTextPreferences.leading = "14.4pt";
app.changeTextPreferences.spaceBefore = "2mm";
for (var i = 0; i < leadingPoints.length; i++) {
app.findTextPreferences.leading = leadingPoints[i];
doc.changeText();
}
}
fixLeading();
By the way, why do you look for those four point sizes? Are they the leading values in your document? The two-liner doesn't care about existing leading, it simply sets all text to 14.4pt leading.