Hi Lee,
In the example, you're trying to apply InDesign formatting to a JavaScript string (from an InDesign dialog box text field). That won't work, because the JavaScript string doesn't know anything about InDesign text objects.
I'm assuming, however, that what you want is to change the formatting of the text on your page. To do that, you can use the findText method on the text, story, or document. Here's an example (the relevant part is the "mySnippet" function--the rest is just setting up an example):
main();
function main(){
mySetup();
mySnippet();
}
function mySnippet(){
//Clear find text preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "®";
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents.item(0).characterStyles.item("superscript");
app.documents.item(0).changeText();
//Reset find/change text preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Reset find/change GREP preferences.
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//There's probably a way to do this in a single pass, but I'm short on time...
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\l(?<=)IT";
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents.item(0).characterStyles.item("superscript");
app.documents.item(0).changeGrep();
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\l";
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents.item(0).characterStyles.item("superscript");
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents.item(0).characterStyles.item("[None]");
app.changeGrepPreferences.position = Position.normal;
app.documents.item(0).changeGrep();
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}
//mySetup simply takes care of setting up the example document.
function mySetup(){
var myDocument = app.documents.add();
var myPage = app.activeWindow.activePage;
//Create a text frame on page 1.
var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();
//Set the bounds of the text frame.
myTextFrame.geometricBounds = myGetBounds(myDocument, myPage);
//Fill the text frame with placeholder text.
myTextFrame.contents = TextFrameContents.placeholderText;
myTextFrame.insertionPoints.item(0).contents = "OperateIT®\r";
myTextFrame.paragraphs.item(-1).insertionPoints.item(0).contents = "OperateIT®\r";
var myHeadingStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.add({name:"heading"});
var mySuperscriptStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.add({name:"superscript", position:Position.superscript});
}
function myGetBounds(myDocument, myPage){
var myPageWidth = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageWidth;
var myPageHeight = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight
if(myPage.side == PageSideOptions.leftHand){
var myX2 = myPage.marginPreferences.left;
var myX1 = myPage.marginPreferences.right;
}
else{
var myX1 = myPage.marginPreferences.left;
var myX2 = myPage.marginPreferences.right;
}
var myY1 = myPage.marginPreferences.top;
var myX2 = myPageWidth - myX2;
var myY2 = myPageHeight - myPage.marginPreferences.bottom;
return [myY1, myX1, myY2, myX2];
}
Thanks,
Ole
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