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Set Kerning/Tracking Increment with a Script

Engaged ,
Feb 09, 2023 Feb 09, 2023

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Trying to set the Edit > Preferences > Units & Increments > Kerning /Tracking value with a script.

 

Is that not part of the object model?

 

Thanks,

Ken

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Community Expert , Feb 09, 2023 Feb 09, 2023

Hi @KenWK , They are set in the textPreferences object. For the application it would be

 

app.textPreferences.kerningKeyIncrement = n

 

 

and for the doc it would be

 

 

app.activeDocument.textPreferences.kerningKeyIncrement = n;

 

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#TextPreference.html

 

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Hi @KenWK , They are set in the textPreferences object. For the application it would be

 

app.textPreferences.kerningKeyIncrement = n

 

 

and for the doc it would be

 

 

app.activeDocument.textPreferences.kerningKeyIncrement = n;

 

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#TextPreference.html

 

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Oy-vey. Thanks Rob. No bleeping idea how I missed that in the VBA object model.

 

Thanks too for the great we page.

 

Best ,

Ken

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What about setting your tracking within your Paragraph Styles?

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Thanks for responding Derek. We're working with 1,500 or so files created by someone else and will likely need to kern some things to fit as they did before and anything I can set with a script will be helpful.

 

Best,

Ken

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