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Re: Set type preferences in InDesign
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Re: Set type preferences in InDesign


  • Subject: Re: Set type preferences in InDesign
  • From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:59:01 -0800
  • Thread-topic: Set type preferences in InDesign

On 11/17/05 7:13 AM, Steve Suranie <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'm thinking I have to do a find and replace in ID once I change the
> preference to get all quotes changed. Does anyone have a different
> suggestion?

You are correct, IMHO.

> I've tried finding and replacing the smart quotes by using ASCII characters
> and AS but the script doesn't ever seem to pick them up.

Here's some code to find and replace every occurrence of inch and foot marks
with double and single quotes (or apostrophes) throughout an entire InDesign
document.

tell application "InDesign CS"
    set typographers quotes of text preferences of document 1 to true
    repeat with aMark in {"'", "\""}
        try
            set charList to (object reference of characters ¬
                of text frames of document 1 whose contents is aMark)
            set markFound to true
        on error number -1728
            -- mark not found in document, so skip it
            set markFound to false
        end try
        if markFound then
            repeat with thisChar in charList
                tell thisChar
                    set (text of text 1 where it is aMark) to aMark
                end tell
            end repeat
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

Hope this helps!

--
Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
Color Technology Inc., Portland, Oregon


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