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How do I export my type specs from style sheets to text file

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November 14, 2016
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Does anyone know a way to export style sheets (paragraph and character) to a text file?

E.g. for a guidelines document I want to be able to spell out all the details for each style—Comic Sans 10/13 track: 10, space after, space before, etc. I don't want to painstakingly go through and write it all out.

Seems like there should be some script that does this???

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Correct answer Kasyan Servetsky

I made a couple of scripts:

Export paragraph style description settings

List paragraph and character styles

— Kas

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nandhinin87775610

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The above links returns page not found error!..

Kasyan Servetsky

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nandhinin87775610 wrote
The above links returns page not found error!..

Here are the new locations:

Export paragraph style description settings

List paragraph and character styles

However, these scripts are quite outdated: CC2019 has new properties, but I have no time to update them.

I had to restructure my site so old links don't work any more. Visit the Scripts sorted by categories page to find lost links.

— Kas

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nandhinin87775610

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nandhinin87775610 wrote
Hi,
i have checked export paragraph styles script.. can we re import the exported styles into indesign?
is it possible? do you have any script?

No, I don't have such a script. Theoretically, it's possible: I even intended to write it. But in practice, there are bugs in InDesign so some properties were impossible to retrieve: I wrote about it at the bottom of the page. I haven't tested it in the recent versions — e.g. CC 2019 — maybe things have changed: old bugs fixed or new ones introduced.

I think it would be great to export styles to csv, open in Excel, sort them, check properties. make changes, if necessary, and finally, export to csv and import back to the inDesign file. However, I have no time to experiment with this,

— kas

ok, i will check with new version properties..

Thank you so much for your response on your busy schedule

Kasyan ServetskyCorrect answer

Brainiac

I made a couple of scripts:

Export paragraph style description settings

List paragraph and character styles

— Kas

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btrhodesAuthor

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you rock! this is perfect
thank you!

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smoothsea

Inspiring

Hi,

I suppose the question you should ask yourself is what you want to do with such a document. If it's to pass to another designer to ensure consistency between documents, then it would be better to just give them an Indesign file with the styles already set up. Then, all they would need to do would be to import your styles into their document.

Regards,

Malcolm

tpk1982

Brainiac

Hi...

The below link have script which is fulfill your requirement

http://indesignsecrets.com/print-out-style-sheet-specs.php

http://perasalvino.es/wordpress/2008/09/informes-sobre-estilos-de-parrafo/

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Check out the Blatner Tools plug-in for InDesign, from DTPtools.com, which adds a style report item to the paragraph and character panel menus that offers user-selectable options for which styles to report, and for every style attribute.

Here's a video that explains how it works: Blatner Tools for InDesign Tutorial 6 - Style Reports - YouTube

If you think that will work for you, head over to: DTP Tools - Blatner Tools for Adobe InDesign

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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btrhodesAuthor

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Thanks BarbBinder for the links and quick response

rob day

Community Expert

There have been some scripts written for this—try searching.

The problem is if you want it to be complete, there are actually hundreds of properties, many of which have their own set of properties. Here's the property list for CS6 and it has only gotten larger for the newer versions:

InDesign ExtendScript API (10.0)