Remove style icons....

Ok harbs...

Hi everyone,

Thanks to all of your responses. For e.g. We have to Design the sample in InDesign but all are same as of previous edition. The previous edition files are Quark files. Only the application platform is changing. While converting these Quark files into InDesign obviously the styles which are comes with floppy icons. We have to create pure design sample of InDesign. So we are supposed to remove this icons. OK I have one idea, can you tell me whether it is possible or not. First we have to get the attributes of each and every style in array, delete the old one and create new style with the same attributes, style name of the old one. Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

Regards
Thiyagu

In fact, automating those icons away is an almost dangerous idea. It means you now have to look carefully at every name to work out if this is a style you really want in your document.

Dave

oooh -- devious! But it seems to do the trick.

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Why would it matter to
i anyone
if there are 'imported' icons on some styles and not on others? If you use/change the imported styles, the icons disappear automatically. If you style your document, replacing imported styles with your own, then you can select "Select all unused" and you can delete them en masse.

Okay.

figgurd out a way...

if(style.imported){
name =style.name;
b=style.duplicate();
style.remove(b);
b.name=name;
}

I'm going to have to differ with Mister Hill. :-D

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Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

>Just change some attribute, and then change it back...

That's interesting. Are you suggesting that that approach should work?

I tried it *before* posting, and hence came to my conclusion it can't be done.

"They thought that it could not be done, some even said they knew it,
But he faced up to what could not be done, and he couldnt bloody do it!" -- Benny Hill

Just change some attribute, and then change it back...

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Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

You cannot manipulate the icons through scripting. It's built-in behavior.

For absolute control, you could look into plugins -- read the resources described here for more information.