paragraph rules

[Suzan_V]

Hi all,

kindly i'm asking about who to reverse " paragraph rules" values for (Right/Left indent) as shown:

for ex, Left indent = 1 and Right indent = 3 then after script be reversed Left = 3 and Right = 1 and i hope that go through all paragraph styles and non styles text too

with Rule above or below

any hint please

Cheers

Suzan

[Obi-wan Kenobi · Accepted solution]

Hi Suzan,

You could work a little with this:

ruleAboveLeftIndent

ruleAboveRightIndent

ruleBelowLeftIndent

ruleBelowRightIndent

See:  InDesign ExtendScript API (11.0)

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[Suzan_V]

Hi Obi,

Thanks for your reply, i will try to find it out using your hint and i hope i get it fast, if don't i will be grateful to back to you again

Cheers

Suzan

[Suzan_V]

many thanks to you Obi my dear, i did it and worked well

Best Regards

Suzan

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Something simply like this:

myParas = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();  
for (P = 0; P < myParas.length; P++)  
{  
    var AL = myParas
.ruleAboveLeftIndent;  
    var AR = myParas
.ruleAboveRightIndent;
    var BL = myParas
.ruleBelowLeftIndent;  
    var BR = myParas
.ruleBelowRightIndent;
    myParas
.ruleAboveLeftIndent = AR;
    myParas
.ruleAboveRightIndent = AL;
    myParas
.ruleBelowLeftIndent = BR;
    myParas
.ruleBelowRightIndent = BL;
}

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[Suzan_V]

Hi Obi,

well i tried your code but nothing changed for each right and left indent and i see that your code make my paragraph styles seems to be override !!

i wrote this code and seems working well for me, you can check too

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myPStyle = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;
for(i=1; i<myPStyle.length; i++){
     var  ruleAboveRightIndentVal = myPStyle.ruleAboveRightIndent;  
     myPStyle.ruleAboveRightIndent = myPStyle.ruleAboveLeftIndent;  
      myPStyle.ruleAboveLeftIndent =ruleAboveRightIndentVal;  
        var  ruleBelowRightIndentVal = myPStyle.ruleBelowRightIndent;  
     myPStyle.ruleBelowRightIndent = myPStyle.ruleBelowLeftIndent;  
      myPStyle.ruleBelowLeftIndent =ruleBelowRightIndentVal;  
       }

Suzan

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Suzan,

Alas, not so simple!

Here, 4 paras: in black color, "standard" para style (no para rules in settings) but manually done ; in red color, a para style with para rules in settings, "pure" in the first para, manually modified in the second one.

1/ Before scripts:

2/ After mine, the 4 paras have been treated, but overridden:

3/ With yours, "black" paras no treated, first "red" para = "pure" para style ( the style has been correctly updated), second "red" para: no correct result:

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