Remove applied styles with AppleScript

[Studio1540]

In QuarkXPress is was able to remove styles with:

set style sheet of paragraphs of story 1 of current box to null

When I try something similar in InDesign, using:

set applied character style of characters of parent story of myFrame to "[None]"

I get an error saying that "Adobe InDesign CS5.5 got an error: Invalid value for set propery 'applied character style'. Expected character style or string, but received "[None]".

"[None]" is the name of a Character Style Sheet, but for some reason it looks like InDesign doesn't recognize it as such. Does anyone know how to remove the style sheets from placed text?

[Loic.Aigon]

Hi,

This kind of stuff always pissed me off. InDesign expected a String. Guess what ? I gave you a String !!!

Anyway, the None character style is always in index 1 ( 0 in js ) so you may use this as a workaround :

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
          set find text preferences to nothing
          set change text preferences to nothing
          set find what of find text preferences to "~"
          set change to of change text preferences to " "
          tell active document
                    set myFrame to text frame 2 --use your own reference
  name of applied character style of parent story of myFrame
                    set applied character style of parent story of myFrame to character style 1 -- character style 1 would always point to None.
          end tell
end tell

Hope it helps,

Loic

http://www.loicaigon.com

[Studio1540]

That's exactly how I've been feeling – pissed off! 

Thanks for the insight on indexes but now I'm getting an error saying that "object is from a different document or workspace" ...

Here's a block of code from the script:

if content type of myFrame is text type then

     set x to 1

     set paraCount to count of paragraphs of parent story of myFrame

     set applied character style of parent story of myFrame to character style 1

     set applied paragraph style of every paragraph of parent story of myFrame to "Body text rag right"

     repeat until x > paraCount

          set wordCount to count words of paragraph x of parent story of myFrame

          if wordCount < 3 then

               if wordCount = 0 then

                    delete paragraph x of parent story of myFrame

                    set paraCount to paraCount - 1

                    set x to x - 1

               else

                    set applied paragraph style of paragraph x of parent story of myFrame to "Subhead"

               end if

          end if

          set x to x + 1

     end repeat

end if

Am I missing something obvious in my syntax?

[ottopia · Accepted solution]

You need to get the character style [None] of the parent document that contains the story.

Try

set applied character style of parent story of myFrame to character style "[None]" of parent of parent story of myFrame

[Studio1540]

That did the trick!

Thanx