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• • August 5, 2014 at 10:05 am #69894
    Mandy McCarthy

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    Is there a script out there that will change the language of all paragraph styles in a document? I frequently need to take US English files with multiple folders of styles and convert them for Canada English and French. Find/replace language does well enough for one-off use but I would like to clean up files as I go without going through each style one at a time.

    -Thanks!

  • August 5, 2014 at 11:36 am #69896
    Mandy McCarthy

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    Got my answer! Thanks!

  • August 6, 2014 at 2:52 am #69911
    Simon Clark

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    Hi try the code below and check if it works

    var a = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles;

    for (var i=a.length-1; i > 0; i–){

    a[i].appliedLanguage = app.languagesWithVendors.item(“Dutch”);

  • September 9, 2014 at 2:23 pm #70488
    sveder stojan

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    Mandy hi,

    would you be so kind and share what have you done? Tnx!

  • September 17, 2014 at 10:54 pm #70650
    Gert Verrept

    Member

    I found this script once on the forum:

    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

    var myLanguages = new Array();

    for (j=0;j<app.languagesWithVendors.length;j++){
    myLanguages.push(app.languagesWithVendors[j].name);
    }

    myDlg = new Window(‘dialog’, ‘Selecteer de taal’);
    myDlg.orientation = ‘column’;
    myDlg.alignment = ‘right’;
    //add drop-down
    myDlg.DDgroup = myDlg.add(‘group’);
    myDlg.DDgroup.orientation = ‘row’;
    myDlg.DDgroup.add(‘statictext’, undefined, “Talen”);
    myDlg.DDgroup.DD = myDlg.DDgroup.add(‘dropdownlist’, undefined, undefined, {items:myLanguages})
    myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection = 7;
    myDlg.closeBtn = myDlg.add(‘button’, undefined, ‘OK’);

    // add button functions
    myDlg.closeBtn.onClick = function()
    { this.parent.close();
    }
    result = myDlg.show();
    alert(myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection);

    for (i=0;i<myDoc.paragraphStyles.length;i++){
    try{
    myDoc.paragraphStyles[i].appliedLanguage = app.languagesWithVendors.item(myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection.index);
    }catch(e){}
    }

    for (k=0;k<myDoc.characterStyles.length;k++){
    try{
    myDoc.characterStyles[k].appliedLanguage = app.languagesWithVendors.item(myDlg.DDgroup.DD.selection.index);
    }catch(e){}
    }

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