Trying to Remove only Words in Black Color from Text Frames not other Words

Question

Hi Experts,Im Trying to Remove words in Black Color in text frames in the current document, the code is working but it removes so much and not working accuratley and some times removes word in black with red colored characters! as show here in the video :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XN6pQNsyZwh1u87Av_r9ZPKZMGLQIcQR/view?usp=sharing i want only to remove all the words in black color, but any word is mixed with another color like red i want to keep it and thanks in advance ://DESCRIPTION :  Remove Words Colored in Black (Not Working Accurate!)

//UNDO Enabled
app.doScript(CatchMyError, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Remove Words Colored in Black");      
//RemoveBlackWords();

//Error Catcher for Function
function CatchMyError(){
    try {
        RemoveBlackWords();
    //Catch Error
    } catch (myError) {
    alert (myError,"ERROR!");
    exit();
    }
}

function RemoveBlackWords(){
var myDoc = app.documents[0];
var MyTextFrames = myDoc.textFrames.everyItem().getElements();

for( var i = 0; i<MyTextFrames.length; i++ ){
    for (j=0; j < MyTextFrames[i].paragraphs.length; j++){
        for (w=0; w < MyTextFrames[i].paragraphs[j].words.length; w++){
   
   //if Words in Black Color found it Shouid be Removed! But not all Word Removed! and Some times Extra Words Removed!
   if(MyTextFrames[i].paragraphs[j].words[w].fillColor == myDoc.colors.itemByName("Black")){
        MyTextFrames[i].paragraphs[j].words[w].remove();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

The GREP expression \b\S+\b (with Black set in the Find format panel) doesn't match anything, which is a bug.

word.fillColor returns the fillColor of the first character only (which is consistent with InDesign's general behaviour).

What you have to do is to get a word's textStyleRanges and check whether any of their fillColor is not Black:

function allBlack (w) {
  var fills = w.textStyleRanges.everyItem().fillColor;
  for (var i = 0; i < fills.length; i++) {
    if (fills[i].name !== 'Black') {
      return false;
    }
  }
  return true;
}

words = app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().words.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = words.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
  if (allBlack (words[i])) {
    words[i].remove();
  }
}

P.

m1b · Answer

Hi @M.Hasanin, have a look at these two functions:

function RemoveBlackText() {
    var myDoc = app.documents[0];
    var texts = myDoc.stories.everyItem().words.everyItem().textStyleRanges.everyItem().getElements();

    for (var i = texts.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        if (texts[i].fillColor.name == "Black")
            texts[i].remove();
    }

};

function RemoveWordsWhoseFirstCharacterIsBlack() {
    var myDoc = app.documents[0];
    var words = myDoc.stories.everyItem().words.everyItem().getElements();

    for (var i = words.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        if (words[i].fillColor.name == "Black")
            words[i].remove();
    }

};

Try them out and you will have an idea about what is going on. One issue is that when you are deleting objects in a collection, eg. words in a story, you must always go backwards, removing the last word first, because otherwise the references will be broken... so when you remove word 1 of story, all works fine, but when you remove word 2 of story, you are actually removing the word that was originally word 3, so the reference become out of sync.

- Mark

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