How can i create paragraph or character style using javascript

Report · Mar 05, 2012

Hi all,

I have doubt in create a paragraph style or character style using javascript.

This is the script i am using write now:

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = NothingEnum.nothing;

app.findTextPreferences.fontStyle = "Italic"

app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "cs_italic";

app.documents.item(0).changeText();

What the script is exactly doing is if the fontstyle is "Italic" means it automatically apply "cs_italic" style, which i already created in the character style pallette.

But what i want is if the fontstyle is (Italic, Bold) means it automatically create a character style related to their fonts after that apply over their styles.

I am new to forum and javascript.

Thanks in advance.....

Report · Mar 05, 2012

Not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but the line in bold is

wrong. Try this:

app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle =

myDoc.characterStyles.itemByName("cs_italic");

where myDoc is a reference to the document you working with (often this

will be app.activeDocument )

If your character style is in a group it's a little more complicated:

myDoc.characterStyleGroups.itemByName("myGroupName").characterStyles.itemByName("cs_italic");

Ariel

Report · Mar 05, 2012

It's easy if you know how. A ParagraphStyle is part of your document's paragraphStyles property. The paragraphStyles property is of type ParagraphStyles (plural), and that object has a method called 'add': http://jongware.mit.edu/idcsjs5.5/pc_ParagraphStyles.html#add

So to add a paragraph style, you would use

pStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.add();

and then set your new style's properties one at a time. The same goes for Character Styles, and for lots of other base document properties as well, from TextFrames to Hyperlinks to Colors.

Report · Nov 08, 2017

Hi.

I need a script that create a character style with these proprieties:

General / Based [none]

Basic Character Formats [none]

Advanced Character Format / Language [no language]

Character Color [none]

Open Type Features [none]

Underline Options [none]

Strikethrough [none]

Export tagging / ePUB and HTML / Tag [automatic]

Could you help me?

Report · Nov 08, 2017

Could you pay somebody for that?

(^/)

Report · Nov 09, 2017

You will find everything you need to know..

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign10/

Report · Nov 08, 2017

Hi.