Hi Harbs and Marijan,

Just curious, any reason not to use vText.fillColor = "$ID/kNoneName"; without the "preamble" doc.swatches.itemByName ?

You should really use the locale independent name

@Harbs – in my German InDesign " fillColor = "None" " does work as expected. Are there other localized versions of InDesign where this does not work?

So this does the job:

myTextFrame.texts[0].fillColor = "None";

Uwe

Harbs,

Surprisingly, "$ID/kNoneName" doesn't work for Object Styles.

Usually, I do it like this:

var _noneObjStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.item(0);

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Marijan (tomaxxi)

Harbs. wrote:

 

You should really use the locale independent name:

 

var noColor = doc.swatches.itemByName("$ID/kNoneName");

I'm afraid this is no correct in the specific case of swatches—and the code above should not work in non-EN languages.

Whatever the locale the None swatch has always the internal name "None"—even if it is localized in the Swatch panel as [None], [Sans], [Ohne], etc. (depending on the locale). This fact is very specific to the Swatches collection, which basically uses None, Black, Paper and Registration as unique reserved names in a locale-independent way. (By contrast, the reserved names of the styles collection, including None, are locale-dependent!)

As a consequence, the regular way to point out to the None swatch in any language, is:

var noneSwatch = myDoc.swatches.itemByName('None');
alert( noneSwatch.isValid ); // should always be true
alert( noneSwatch.name ); // should always be"None"

Likewise, the shortcut to apply this swatch, in any language, is:

myObj.fillColor = "None";

whereas myObj.fillColor = "$ID/kNoneName" will fail in non-EN locales because this actually means:

myObj.fillColor = app.translateKeyString("$ID/kNoneName");

i. e.:

myObj.fillColor = "Ohne"; // in German => error

myObj.fillColor = "Sans"; // in French => error

By contrast, name-based access to special object styles can be done locale-dependently, and should be done locale-independently:

var noneStyle = myDoc.objectStyles.itemByName('$ID/[None]'); // OK

@+

Marc