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• • April 8, 2010 at 9:48 am #55468
    Ralph Sanders

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    anyone know of a script to remove:

    • all unused paragraph styles
    • all unused character styles
    • all unused swatches
    • all unused table styles
    • all unused cell styles
    • all unused object styles
    • all unused master pages

    thanks in advance.

  • April 8, 2010 at 10:20 am #55469
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    In the menu panel for each you can choose “Select All Unused” then remove the ones not used.

    Some paragraph styles may be based on others (child styles) or be a base for other styles (parent styles). So you will have to choose None for the replacement style and then tick the Preserve Formatting box.

    But you should be able to remove most things using the menu from each panel.

    I'd start with Master pages

    Then table and cell styles

    Then object styles

    Then Paragraph Styles

    Then Character Styles

    Then swatches.

  • April 8, 2010 at 10:21 am #55470
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Or are you looking for an all-in-one script, one click and back it's gone?

  • April 8, 2010 at 3:16 pm #55474
    Ralph Sanders

    Member

    I was hoping a script existed that would clean out all the detritus in one fell swoop. Know of one?

  • April 9, 2010 at 9:55 pm #55484
    boriskasmoscow

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    https://www.adobescripts.info/layout.html -> script InWash (JavaScript, autor Vitaly Batushev). This Script remove all unused paragraph and character styles, all unused swatches, empty Text frames.

  • June 12, 2010 at 12:09 am #56014
    Colin Flashman

    Member

    i'm completely with the OP here, this would be a handy script for anyone who wants to tidy up their indesign files, and i'd go several steps further to add the following options:

    * change all registration type and fills to 100% K (when authors click the colour by mistake and don't see it in their seps)

    * remove all unused layers

    * add unnamed colors

    * make RGB swatches CMYK

    * remove unused images from pasteboard (not textboxes in case it is threaded to text used on a page… could be a disaster)

    i have seen some scripts that do the above tasks (dave saunders has one to make RGB to CMYK but it makes R0G0B0 become C75M68Y67K90 instead of 100K) and Dirk Becker wrote one to delete all unused colors.

    I did try the script from the above poster but it had trouble with CS4 unless i put the script into “version 4.0 scripts” folder and then it worked fine, don't know if it works under CS5.

    but i'm absolutely with the OP on this, it'd be nice to have one script which would do the job, or a menu item such as “tidy up loose ends” (which could be made into a KBSC).

  • September 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm #63036
    Sheri G

    Member

    Unfortunately, the link to the script goes to a dead page now.

    Anyone else have any ideas about a script or plug-in that will allow you to search/remove all unused character and paragraph styles quickly? Bonus points if it would work against all the documents in a book publication.

    Thanks.

    Sheri

  • September 3, 2012 at 12:33 pm #63051
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    There is another discussion about this here:

    https://creativepro.com/for…..javascript

    also see:

    https://colecandoo.wordpress.co…..-elements/

    and

    https://forums.adobe.com/message/1106498

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