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Scripting problem with Style Groups

Jan 24, 2011 6:12 AM

Hi

Is there a way to frame a Character Style definition for Grep to indicate the style is in a Style Group?

The relevant line in the script is:

app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = 'STYLE NAME';

what I need to do is tell it that this style name is in a style group. Is there a simple piece if syntax that will do this?

Thanks

729 Views 6 Replies Latest reply: secondgradersrule, Jan 24, 2011 8:04 AM

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1. Harbs.,

Jan 24, 2011 6:19 AM in reply to confused_again

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This should do it:

app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyleGroups.item("group name").characterStyles.item("style name");

Harbs

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2. Kasyan Servetsky,

Jan 24, 2011 6:20 AM in reply to confused_again

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Try this:

app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = app.documents[0].characterStyleGroups.item("GroupName").characterStyles.item("StyleName");

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3. Harbs.,

Jan 24, 2011 6:29 AM in reply to Kasyan Servetsky

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Beat ya to it!

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4. Kasyan Servetsky,

Jan 24, 2011 6:31 AM in reply to Harbs.

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Yeah! About a minute.

Kasyan

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5. confused_again,

Jan 24, 2011 6:41 AM in reply to confused_again

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That seems to have fixed it.

Many thanks!

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6. secondgradersrule,

Jan 24, 2011 8:04 AM in reply to Kasyan Servetsky

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You are all too quick!

We recently bought a pagination system that is based on InDesign, but does not support style groups. Makes for a long, flat list of paragraph styles. We will try to persuade the developers to get up to date.

Dick

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