misspelled words to conditional text

[Olfar]

I need to write such a script, but I do not know how to start to get a list of all the misspelled words in the document, and how to refer to them. Any ideas are welcome. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

[brianp311]

Misspelled words aren't exposed in the DOM, unfortunately. But there are some commercial solutions available that might help. Check out http://mindsteam.com/

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

As Brian mentioned, misspelled words aren't exposed to to scripting. But there's a way to get misspelled words using a rather terrible hack. This is a variant of something I found in this forum a couple of years ago. The script creates a list of misspelled words in a new document.

How you relate the words in that list to their text locations is a different matter, you need to script a panel for that with the typos in a list, and each item pointing to a list, or create hyperlinks.

Anyway, this example shows you how to go about it and can get you started on something bigger.

// Set your spelling properties here
app.spellPreferences.properties = {
  checkCapitalizedSentences: false,
  checkCapitalizedWords: false,
  checkRepeatedWords: false,
  checkMisspelledWords: true
}

menu = app.menuActions.item ('$ID/Check Spelling...');

typos = [];
menu.invoke();
if (!app.selection.length) { // No spelling errors
  exit();
}
typos.push (app.selection[0].contents);
i = app.selection[0].index;
menu.invoke();
while (app.selection[0].index !== i) {
  typos.push (app.selection[0].contents);
  i = app.selection[0].index;
  menu.invoke();
}

var story = app.documents.add().textFrames.add({
  geometricBounds: app.documents[0].pages[0].bounds,
  contents: typos.join('\r'),
});

[Olfar]

Thank you so much for your help. I think I will do something about it.
Having a list I can search the document and mark all those words.

[SumitKumar]

Dear Peter,

This is working fine as I expected, but how to disable spell check dialog after generated misspelled word list?

Sumit

[Peter Kahrel]

I've no idea. . .

[SumitKumar]

Thank you for your response.

Sumit