Make change to all Document Styles using a script

[Awitmer]

Hello all! I am writing the script below and am needing some help. I am

wanting to change the language setting in all of the document paragraph

styles to German but when I use the "everyItem" property of paragraphStyles

it does not change any of the style definitions. Could somebody please give

me some help and directions? Thanks a million!

#target indesign

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;

var myStyles = myDocument.paragraphStyles.lastItem();

var myStyle = myStyles;

try{

myStyle.appliedLanguage = "German: 2006 Reform";

alert("The language settings for all of the paragraph styles have

been changed to German: 2006 Reform.")

}

catch(e){}

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hi Awitmer,

The everyItem api will not work in this case because we are not allowed to change the paragraph style None and hence the code will crash and no paragraph style will be edited. You can use a loop and skip the None paragraph style from being edited

for(var i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.length; i++)
{
  var ps = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles
  if(ps.name == "[No Paragraph Style]")
       continue;
  else
       ps.appliedLanguage = "German: 2006 Reform"
}

-Manan

[Awitmer]

Thanks Manan!

This works great! Now I am making a GUI that allows me to choose which language I want to switch to. 🙂

[Klaas vT]

Hi Awitmer,

Can you post that once it's done? I could use that very well, but I've not done much with GUIs...

Thanks in advance!