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• • May 15, 2012 at 9:56 am #62186
    Ymg2000

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    I'm trying to write a Java script to change the selected story to RTL (story options, not paragraph direction).

    I'm new to scripting. I came up with the following which gives me an error. Can any scripting expert point me in the right direction?

    Here is the JS:

    var myTextFrame app.activeDocument.activePage.activeTextFrame

    with(myTextFrame){

    StoryPreferences.parentStory.storyPreferences.storyDirection =

    StoryDirectionOptions.RightToLeftDirection;

    }

    End With

  • May 15, 2012 at 1:23 pm #62188
    Ymg2000

    Member

    I figured it out. It turns out I didn't know how to tell the script which object to apply it to (the var in the first line).

    Here's the correct script, in case anyone is interested:

    myTextFrame = app.selection[0];

    with(myTextFrame){

    parentStory.storyPreferences.storyDirection =

    StoryDirectionOptions.rightToLeftDirection;

    }

  • June 23, 2012 at 9:16 pm #62497
    Sami Artur Mandelbaum

    Member

    Here your solution:

    var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);

    var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);

    var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.item(0);

    var myTextObject = myTextFrame.parentStory.characters.item(0);

    main ();

    function main ()

    {

    try

    {

    if (app.selection[0].parentStory.storyPreferences.storyDirection == StoryDirectionOptions.rightToLeftDirection)

    app.selection[0].parentStory.storyPreferences.storyDirection = StoryDirectionOptions.leftToRightDirection

    else

    app.selection[0].parentStory.storyPreferences.storyDirection = StoryDirectionOptions.rightToLeftDirection

    }

    catch (_){}

    }

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