[CS2/CS3 JS] How to set Default Font for multiple documents

[Guest]

Hello,

How do I set the default font for any new text frames I create.

I have several thousand InDesign templates in which the default font is set to a font that is no longer licenced and therefore requires changing.

I already have a script which will open each template and change the first insertion point of any (empty) text frame to a new font but any new text frames created in these templates still want to use the unlicensed font.

Thanks for any assistance.

Simon Kemp

[Kasyan Servetsky]

for existing documents:
app.activeDocument.textDefaults.appliedFont = myDoc.fonts.itemByName ('Arial\tBold');
for newly created ones:
app.textDefaults.appliedFont = myDoc.fonts.itemByName ('Arial\tBold');

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Kasyan,

Does this work for CS2 documents?

Simon Kemp

[Kasyan Servetsky]

>Does this work for CS2 documents?

No,CS2 doesn't support fonts.itemByName method.
I can't check it in CS2, because don't have CS2 version properly working any more.

[Guest]

Thanks,

This works in CS2:

app.activeDocument.textDefaults.appliedFont = "Helvetica LT Com";

Simon

[Kasyan Servetsky]

I made a mistake in the previous post: to set default font for application I should have used application's font collection.

app.textDefaults.appliedFont = app.fonts.itemByName ('Arial\tBold');