Changing fonts (and faces) in InDesign paragraph & character styles
Changing fonts (and faces) in InDesign paragraph & character styles
- Subject: Changing fonts (and faces) in InDesign paragraph & character styles
- From: JF <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 14:42:57 +0100
I need to change fonts in over 100 character and paragraph styles over a lot of documents, all with different styles and variations. This is very tedious to do manually, as anyone who knows about InDesign's style interface can tell you.
I have managed to get a list of the properties of all the character styles using this script, but the result is enormous and mostly irrelevant to me. All I want is the style name, applied font, and font style, all preferably on the same line. This easy script works, but has the massive list of properties, some of which I never imagined a character style would have:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
get properties of all character styles of active document
end tell
but this does not work:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
get properties {name, applied font, font style} of all character styles of active document
end tell
I have tried:
get applied font of all character styles of active document
and similar for name and font style and I do get lists, but they are all in separate lists. I have also tried variations on "get name and applied font and font style of all character styles..." but none compile in Script Debugger.
This is the first bit I had in mind to solve my problem. It is possibly irrelevant to my goal, but at least I have been able to see the style attributes in one page rather than using INDD's style windows one by one. I then need to see which styles need to have their fonts changed, and tbh I have no idea how to change them, possibly looping from one named style to another or one font name/font style? I am also assuming that once I have a script for character styles then I can easily adapt it for paragraph styles.
Thanks for any help.
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