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Jethika27555372y6gg
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February 12, 2024
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Identify paragraph style override

  • February 12, 2024
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Hi is there any way to identify that paragraph style is an override or not using indesign sdk?

Thanks in advance.

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    Correct answer Rahul_Rastogi

    You need to know the boss class of the attribute that you want to fetch. For that you need to search InDesign SDK or use InDesign debug build.

     

    Also, internal attribute boss names might differ what is shown in the UI. It won't be exactly the same.

     

    Refer the below code -

     

    InterfacePtr<ITextAttrBreakBeforeMode> iTextAttrBreakBeforeMode((ITextAttrBreakBeforeMode*)paraStyleAttrListOverrides->QueryByClassID(kTextAttrGotoNextXBoss, IID_ITEXTATTRBREAKBEFOREMODE));

    if(!iTextAttrBreakBeforeMode)

    break;

     

    if(iTextAttrBreakBeforeMode->Get() == Text::kAtColumn)

    CAlert::InformationAlert("At next column");

     

    // As per InDesign SDK for possible values of break mode -

    kNoForcedBreak
    kStartAnywhere
    kAtColumn
    kAtPage
    kAtFrameBox
    kAtOddPage
    kAtEvenPage

     

     

    - Rahul Rastogi

    InDesign SDK C++ Custom Plugin Architect

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    Rahul_Rastogi
    Inspiring
    February 13, 2024

    Hi @Jethika27555372y6gg ,

     

    Using InDesign SDK, You can use the following code snippet to check whether para style is overridden for the underlying text or not -

     

    InterfacePtr<IAttributeStrand> iParaAttributeStrand(((IAttributeStrand*)iTextModel->QueryStrand(kParaAttrStrandBoss, IAttributeStrand::kDefaultIID)));

     

    DataWrapper<AttributeBossList> paraStyleAttrListOverrides = iParaAttributeStrand->GetLocalOverrides(startIndex, &paraStyleOverrideLength, &outStartIndex);

     

    if(paraStyleAttrListOverrides->CountBosses() == 0)

    CAlert::InformationAlert("There are no para overrides");

    else

    CAlert::InformationAlert("para style is overridden")

     

    To get the which parastyle is overridden you can use iParaAttributeStrand->GetStyleUID()

     

     

    - Rahul Rastogi

    InDesign SDK C++ Custom Plugin Architect

     

     

     

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      Jethika27555372y6ggAuthor
      Participant
      February 14, 2024

      Hi @Rahul_Rastogi  there is one antoher question lets say i override a paragraph using keep option ->In Next Column 

       

      is there any way to get this next column attribute as a string variable 

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      Rahul_RastogiCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      February 14, 2024

      You need to know the boss class of the attribute that you want to fetch. For that you need to search InDesign SDK or use InDesign debug build.

       

      Also, internal attribute boss names might differ what is shown in the UI. It won't be exactly the same.

       

      Refer the below code -

       

      InterfacePtr<ITextAttrBreakBeforeMode> iTextAttrBreakBeforeMode((ITextAttrBreakBeforeMode*)paraStyleAttrListOverrides->QueryByClassID(kTextAttrGotoNextXBoss, IID_ITEXTATTRBREAKBEFOREMODE));

      if(!iTextAttrBreakBeforeMode)

      break;

       

      if(iTextAttrBreakBeforeMode->Get() == Text::kAtColumn)

      CAlert::InformationAlert("At next column");

       

      // As per InDesign SDK for possible values of break mode -

      kNoForcedBreak
      kStartAnywhere
      kAtColumn
      kAtPage
      kAtFrameBox
      kAtOddPage
      kAtEvenPage

       

       

      - Rahul Rastogi

      InDesign SDK C++ Custom Plugin Architect

      Steve Werner
      Community Expert
      Steve WernerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 12, 2024

      You can identify type which has an override of a paragraph style by using the Style Override Highlighter icon at the upper right of the Paragraph Styles panel:

       

      danaken3
      danaken3
      Participating Frequently
      February 12, 2024

      The following method seems to work with a textStyleRange (but I'm having trouble getting it to work consistently for a paragraph).

      textHasOverrides (charOrParaStyle:StyleType, [charStyleAsOverride:Boolean=Boolean])

      • charOrParaStyle: StyleType.CHARACTER_STYLE_TYPE or StyleType.PARAGRAPH_STYLE_TYPE

        Style type to look at.

      • charStyleAsOverride: Boolean
        Whether to consider character styles as overrides or not (Optional)

        (default: true)

      rob day
      Community Expert
      rob dayCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 12, 2024

      Hi @Jethika27555372y6gg , As @danaken3 suggests you would have to check the story’s text ranges—at least with JavaScript. If you check the paragraph with JS, it would only return true if the entire paragraph is overriden. So here I have 3 paragraphs with one word overridden:

       

       

      This loop through textStyleRanges returns false, true, false:

      var dp = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().getElements();

for (var i = 0; i < dp.length; i++){
    $.writeln(dp[i].textHasOverrides(StyleType.PARAGRAPH_STYLE_TYPE))
    //returns false, true, false
};

       

      But this loop through paragraphs returns false, false, false because only one word in paragraph 2 is overridden

       

      var dp = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();

for (var i = 0; i < dp.length; i++){
    $.writeln(dp[i].textHasOverrides(StyleType.PARAGRAPH_STYLE_TYPE))
    //returns false, false, false
};
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