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• • November 26, 2015 at 1:38 am #79661
    Amit Schandillia

    Member

    I am trying to write a script to automatically convert all curly double quotes (“”) in a text box into straight double quotes (“). Here’s all that I’ve tried so far and none of them seem to be working:

    imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, ‘”‘);
    imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, “\u0022”);
    imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, ‘\^”‘);
    imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, ‘^\”‘);
    imgtext.contents = imgtext.contents.replace(/[\u201C\u201D]/g, ‘\^\”‘);

    What am I missing here?

  • November 26, 2015 at 1:58 am #79662
    Amit Schandillia

    Member

    Here’s what my Find/Change looks like: https://imgur.com/5e5LUqL

  • November 29, 2015 at 9:19 am #79676
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    You’re replacing text content, which is dangerous because you may delete index markers, cross-references, etc. etc. And you might make a mess of formatting. It’s safer to let InDesign do the replacements rather than JavaScript. Something like this:

    [code]app.documents[0].textPreferences.typographersQuotes = false;
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ‘(["’])’;
    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = ‘$1’;
    imgtext.changeGrep();

    app.documents[0].textPreferences.typographersQuotes = true;[/code]

    Peter

  • November 29, 2015 at 9:20 am #79677
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    (Without [code] and [/code], naturally. Forgot the correct format for those.)

    • March 31, 2016 at 6:20 am #83532
      Anonymous

      Inactive

      that awesome |

  • March 31, 2016 at 6:37 am #83533
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    There may be an easier way, just using Find/Change:
    https://creativepro.com/curly-typography-quotes-turn-off.php/comment-page-1#comment-1096377

  • March 31, 2016 at 7:11 am #83536
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Well, actually, no need to play with the document’s Typeographic quotes setting. (Grep) Find ", replace with ~".

  • March 31, 2016 at 10:55 am #83551
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    yes yes !

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