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• • July 26, 2017 at 3:11 pm #96382
    gamouning

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    Hi,

    Can someone help me create “a simple script” which defines a new character style? For example, I want to create a “small caps” character style.

    What I currently do is pull down the “New Character Style” menu and under Case select “Open Type All Small Caps”.

    How can this be accomplished with a script?

    Thanks,
    Greg

  • July 26, 2017 at 10:49 pm #96383
    Kai Rübsamen

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    What is the benefit of doing these two steps with a script?

    When you wrote such a script, you would normally check, if
    a) a doc is open
    b) a style with a name “small caps” already exists
    c) the font has Open Type small caps

    So there are more steps needed in scripting, than doing it “by hand”.

    Kai

  • July 27, 2017 at 6:32 am #96390
    gamouning

    Member

    Hi Kai,

    Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are correct however, I am not interested in making this script complicated with doing error checking. It will be used with a Find/Change script I created to use an Open Type font.

    Regards,
    Greg

  • July 27, 2017 at 6:52 am #96391
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    Greg, try this one:

    app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add({name: “test”, capitalization: Capitalization.CAP_TO_SMALL_CAP});

    and then start it a second time ;-)

  • July 27, 2017 at 7:10 am #96392
    gamouning

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    Thanks Kai, just what I need! :-)

    -Greg

  • December 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm #14323671
    gamouning

    Member

    Hi,

    Can someone tell me how to make changes to a predefined paragraph style called “3. text” using javascript? I need to change the applied font name “Times New Roman” fontstyle “Regular” to font name “YaleNew” fontstyle “Roman”.

    Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

    -Greg

  • December 6, 2019 at 9:13 am #14323613
    gamouning

    Member

    This question has been answered and resolved in a different forum. I am posting a link to the thread for any others who might be interested below:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/need-to-change-predefined-paragraph-style-items-in-multiple-indesign-files-with-javascript/m-p/10785500

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