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Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
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June 7, 2019
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Styleoverriden returns wrong value for AutoLeading override

  • June 7, 2019
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Hello All,

I am checking text for style overrides. Now if a piece of text has a character style applied over it and has an override of auto leading. The styleoverridden property returns false. How do we explain this? Is it a bug or am i missing something?

-Manan

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Correct answer BarlaeDC

Hi,

Could you not use textHasOverrides, as this takes a paragraph or character style.

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Character.html#d1e461137__d1e469100

Boolean textHasOverrides (charOrParaStyle:StyleType, [charStyleAsOverride:Boolean=Boolean])

If true, text has local overrides

Parameter

Type

Description

charOrParaStyle

StyleType

StyleType.CHARACTER_STYLE_TYPE

StyleType.PARAGRAPH_STYLE_TYPE

Style type to look at.

charStyleAsOverride

Boolean

Whether to consider character styles as overrides or not (Optional)

(default: true)

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BarlaeDC
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BarlaeDCCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 7, 2019

Hi,

Could you not use textHasOverrides, as this takes a paragraph or character style.

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Character.html#d1e461137__d1e469100

Boolean textHasOverrides (charOrParaStyle:StyleType, [charStyleAsOverride:Boolean=Boolean])

If true, text has local overrides

Parameter

Type

Description

charOrParaStyle

StyleType

StyleType.CHARACTER_STYLE_TYPE

StyleType.PARAGRAPH_STYLE_TYPE

Style type to look at.

charStyleAsOverride

Boolean

Whether to consider character styles as overrides or not (Optional)

(default: true)

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    June 7, 2019

    Hi BarlaeDC ,

    thank you very much for this. It seems that method textHasOverrides() was introduced with InDesign version 11.

    https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign11/#Text.html#d1e409488

    Just testing this :-)

    Regards,
    Uwe

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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
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      June 7, 2019

      Hi Manan,

      just tested this and I see that texts[0].styleOverridden returns true.

      Do you have a sample document where you are seeing this?

      Regards,
      Uwe

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      Manan JoshiCommunity ExpertAuthor
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      June 7, 2019

      Hi Uwe,

      I get it even on a fresh document that i create. I have tested it on CC2017 MAC and CC2018 WIN. See the video cast i attach below

      -Manan

      -Manan
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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
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      June 7, 2019

      My explanation is:

      styleOverridden is showing if the paragraph style is overridden.

      In your sample the applied character style is overridden.

      FWIW: In my test before the paragraph style was overridden.

      Regards,
      Uwe

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