Annotate paragraph style names

[Brolaf]

I'm looking for a way to display the names of the respective paragraph styles I'm using throughout a document for visual reference. Almost like a caption under a photo, I want to select a text box and create a caption or note that says the name of the style applied to it. I know I can do this manually, but I'm looking for a script or tool that allows me to do it automatically on the text boxes I select.

Something like the attached image, where the red text calls out the name of the paragraph style.

Or if there's a way to view these details in a PDF, that would work as well.

Any ideas?

[Ian Blogs]

Have you tried edit in story editor. It displays the paragraph styles as you want.

[Brolaf]

Thanks, Ian. I'm trying to get this information to actually display on the page as well because it is serving as a style guide for designers and developers who will not be working in InDesign, rather referencing a PDF. So it's almost this exact function, only placing it on the page instead of in the story editor window.

[BobLevine]

Use notes. Open the ID file in InCopy (part of you Creative Cloud subscription) and export the PDF from there.

Choose to convert notes to PDF annotations.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

As Time will always be for me a matter of money, 1 click is only what I shall do to get such a result!  😉

1-click again to make the colorings & annotations disappear!

Use The Force! …

(^/)

[Brolaf]

Wow. Thanks Obi-wan, this is a pretty great script. I can get the hilight colors to work, but see no way to show the annotations, which would be the most helpful part. Is this in a different script than stylighter?

[Obi-wan Kenobi · Accepted solution]

Yeap!

The 2 scripts have been written by another great Jedi whose name is not Marc Autret, our Javascript Master, less small and green than Yoda [joke!]. His name is Roland Dreger Jedi Master!

Take a look to his web site:  JavaScript — Roland Dreger, Grafikdesign

(^/) 

[Brolaf]

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much, Obi-wan and Roland.