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about paragraph style?

Jan 24, 2012 3:31 AM

Hello ,

i want to check wheather particular style is present in the document.if present then i want to apply another style.

is any method in the indesign script which will find and replce particular style in the document?

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  • Kasyan Servetsky
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    1. Kasyan Servetsky,
    Jan 24, 2012 3:39 AM   in reply to govind_85
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    You can do this in the find-change dialog box (no script needed). Set a paragraph style you want to find and the one you want to replace it with. Put nothing into the find what and change to fields.

     
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  • govind_85
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    2. govind_85,
    Jan 24, 2012 4:52 AM   in reply to Kasyan Servetsky
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    Hello sir,

    i want to change style by scripting.

     
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  • Kasyan Servetsky
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    3. Kasyan Servetsky,
    Jan 24, 2012 8:57 AM   in reply to govind_85
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    Here's a simple example:

    var doc = app.activeDocument;
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.item("Header");
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyles.item("Subheader");
doc.changeText();
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

     

    It changes paragraph style Header with Subheader

    If you want to reference a paragraph style in a group, you can do this like so:

    app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = doc.paragraphStyleGroups.item("Headers").paragraphStyles.item("Header");
     
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  • richardh6
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    4. richardh6,
    Jan 24, 2012 10:04 AM   in reply to Kasyan Servetsky
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    And if you're operating in an environment where you know that you don't have any paragraph styles with the same names stored in different groups, and you want to reference a paragraph style that is somewhere in the document, without knowing what group it's in, you can use this recursive function to find it:

     

    var findParagraphStyle = function( obj, name ) {
    var style = obj.paragraphStyles.itemByName( name );
    if (!style.isValid) {
        for (var i = 0; i < paragraphStyleGroups.length; i += 1) {
            style = findParagraphStyle( obj.paragraphStyleGroups[i], name );
        }
    }
    return style; //     If we haven't found a style with name "name", 
                        //     findParagraphStyle will return an invalid object.
};
 
app.findTextPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = findParagraphStyle( doc, "Header" );
     
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