Help with some questions about tables, colors and fonts

[Ribnog]

Hi,

Please, to start see the simple code that I'm writing:

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myTable = app.selection[0].convertToTable("\t", "\t", 2);  
myTable.cells[0].properties = {
contents: "TITLE",
width: "4 mm",
rotationAngle: 270,
rightInset: 0.5, leftInset: 0.5, topInset: 2, bottomInset: 2,
fillColor: "COLOR 2018",
bottomEdgeStrokeColor: "COLOR 2018",
topEdgeStrokeColor: "COLOR 2018",
leftEdgeStrokeColor: "COLOR 2018",
topEdgeStrokeWeight: 1,
bottomEdgeStrokeWeight: 1,
rightEdgeStrokeWeight: 0,
leftEdgeStrokeWeight: 1,
};
myTable.cells[0].texts[0].properties = {justification: Justification.RIGHT_ALIGN, appliedFont: "Fira Sans", fillColor: "Paper"}; 
myTable.cells[1].properties = {
width: "100 mm",
rightInset: 2, leftInset: 2, topInset: 2, bottomInset: 2,
bottomEdgeStrokeColor: "COLOR 2018",
topEdgeStrokeColor: "COLOR 2018",
topEdgeStrokeWeight: 1,
bottomEdgeStrokeWeight: 1,
rightEdgeStrokeWeight: 0,
leftEdgeStrokeWeight: 0,
};
myTable.cells[1].paragraphs[0].remove();

With that I'm change this:

To this:

Easy, ok?

So I get stuck with some things that I call for your help:

1. I'm applying the Fira Sans font in the word TITLE, but how I can use your style "Bold"? I know that's using the fontStyleName property but where?
2. The width of my cells[1] is 100 mm, but I want this width the same size of the text frame. See the second image.
3. I think this is the hard one! I'm using the color with name "COLOR 2018", but I will have different indesign files with different name colors. The only things that remains is the " 2018", like "BIO 2018", "MATH 2018". So is even possible to create a variable that apply the color using something like NAME + " 2018" instead the string itself?

I hope you will understand what I want and I'm grateful for some help!

[Ribnog]

Hi,

The question 1 is solved, is fontStyle instead fontStyleName, my mistake..

[Jump_Over · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Question 2:

Your table has a frame's (paragraph TTYTT) width while created by default. Store this value before setting custom width and calculate column width using this as a base.

Question 3:

to find current doc color name collect all collor name in an array and use a trick to match.Something like:

var
   mDoc,
   mNames = mDoc.swatches.everyItem().name,
   mString = "@@" + mNames.join("@@") + "@@",    //    so we've got a string "@@name1@@name2@@....@@"
   foundName = mString.match(/[^@]+?2018(?=@@)/),
   foundColor = foundName ? mDoc.swatches.item(foundName[0]) : false;
if (!foundColor) alert ("Color '....2018' not found in a doc: " + mDoc.name);

So var foundColor is false or a color object ready to apply

Jarek

[Ribnog]

Thank you so much Jarek!

[Saeedfs]

hi Jarek,

if it is possible to explain to me line 06

appreciating your response

[Jump_Over]

Hi,

This is a shorter way to conditional assigning a value.

variable = condition ? valueIfTrue : valueIfFalse;

foundName could be an Array with string matched (true) or null (false).

Jarek

[Saeedfs]

thank very,

it adds valuable knowledge to me.  

may you suggested for me further reading about conditional assigning a value.