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Re: InDesign Paragraph Style Application
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Re: InDesign Paragraph Style Application


  • Subject: Re: InDesign Paragraph Style Application
  • From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:28:46 -0700

You're addressing the application, not the document.

Rick Gordon

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On 7/15/09 at 4:06 AM +0200, Roy McCoy wrote in a message entitled
"Re: InDesign Paragraph Style Application":

>Shane Stanley wrote:
>
>>On 13/7/09 11:55 PM, "Roy McCoy" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>>Adobe InDesign CS4 got an error: Invalid value for parameter 'using'
>>>>of event 'apply paragraph style'. Expected paragraph style, but
>>>>received "3.kl.normala kun ensalto".
>>
>>Right: it wants a reference to a style, not just a name. So:
>>
>>set theStyle to paragraph style "3.kl.normala kun ensalto"
>>tell paragraph 1 of story 1
>>apply paragraph style using theStyle without
>>clearing overrides
>>
>>Using references rather than just names for styles (and things like colors)
>>is good standard practice, and helps avoid lots of similar problems.
>
>Thanks, but still not working. Here's one of the ten at random:
>
>tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
>	set theStyle to paragraph style "2.kl.normala sen ensalto"
>	tell paragraph 1 of story 1
>		apply paragraph style using theStyle without clearing overrides
>	end tell
>end tell
>
>This gives:
>
>>Adobe InDesign CS4 got an error: Can't get paragraph style "2.kl.normala sen ensalto".
>
>
>Ha. And if on a hunch I add "of document 1" following the name of the style, it seems to get the style all right but then it says:
>
>>Adobe InDesign CS4 got an error: paragraph 1 of story 1 doesn't understand the apply paragraph style message.
>
>And I've got a lot of text here I have to style fast, durn.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Roy McCoy
>
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