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Single Liner script for Language

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June 21, 2024
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Hi,

I am looking for a single liner script to find the applied language in a document.

I am tring this:

app.activeDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.item(0).parentStory='Farsi'

For some reason this script is not working and it is not giving any error also.

Actually its part of a script where I have to specify the option for find and replace a text only if it is in a specifig language. So I have to use this snippet of single liner as an argument in that script.

Link to the script

http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/2019/find_replace/find_replace.html

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Correct answer Bedazzled532

Ok I found it.

Here is the single liner script:
appliedLanguage:app.languagesWithVendors.itemByID(119) // 119 denotes Farsi

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @Bedazzled532,

As @rob day explained in detail that the document can have possibly many languages applied to the text so your one liner would not be a complete solution. The code should be just a simple addition to check for the language as well with the find/change grep or find/change text.

-Manan

rob day

Community Expert

I am looking for a single liner script to find the applied language in a document.

Hi @Bedazzled532 , In case it isn’t clear Language is a character level property—a document could have texts set in multiple languages. Your one liner gets a language with the ID 119 if it is installed, but the active document may or may not use that language—this doc has both English and French text:

Bedazzled532Author

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@rob day @Manan Joshi Thanks for the input. Actually I needed this one liner for inclusion in an existing script as an argument. I have shared the link of the script in above post. I have also shared a single liner which I came up with and it is working.

Thanks

Bedazzled532AuthorCorrect answer

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Ok I found it.

Here is the single liner script:
appliedLanguage:app.languagesWithVendors.itemByID(119) // 119 denotes Farsi

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Dirk Becker

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Be prepared that the ID is not always stable.

It may differ with a different version of InDesign, or with plug-ins added or removed, or …

rob day

Community Expert

Right, this returns false with my InDesign install:

$.writeln(app.languagesWithVendors.itemByID(119).isValid)
//returns false

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