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• • October 30, 2019 at 6:11 am #1193813
    Art Hoffman

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    Hi All,

    I am working to replace all of our existing paragraph styles with new paragraph styles. The only change is changing Arial font to Roboto (thanks Google). Is there a way to do this en masse via script instead of one at a time? I found this and it looks like something that would work but I can’t get it to.

    var old1 = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByName(“Model Number”);
    var new1 = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.itemByName(“Roboto Model Number”);
    old1.remove(new1);

    Even a script to just change the font in the existing paragraph styles would work. My script skills are pretty non-existent. Any help would be appreciated.

    Thank you!

  • October 30, 2019 at 8:33 am #14323828
    Dieter Stockert

    Member

    If the paragraph styles are based on one specific paragraph style, then changing the font in this base style should do the job.

  • October 31, 2019 at 1:16 am #14323822
    Peter Kahrel

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    Something like the following script changes Arial to Roboto only in paragraphs that use Arial. Dependencies (through basedOn) should carry over. A potential problem is font styles in Arial not present in Roboco, But if you use just, say, Regular and Italic you should be ok. The proof of the pudding…

    pstyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;<br />
    for (i = 1; i < pstyles.length; i++) {<br />
      if (pstyles[i].appliedFont.fontFamily == 'Arial') {<br />
        pstyles[i].appliedFont = 'Roboco';<br />
      }<br />
    }
    

    P.

  • October 31, 2019 at 1:23 am #14323820
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    You should leave out those
    tags. I couldn’t edit the code any longer after five attempts.

  • October 31, 2019 at 7:15 am #14323818
    Art Hoffman

    Participant

    Aside from the typo (Roboto) this worked perfectly for changing the font! Now to adapt it for the other fonts.

    Where do I send the beer to?

    You guys here rock!

  • November 7, 2019 at 1:51 pm #14323787
    David Loveday

    Participant

    Hello Peter,
    I was very interested in the script that you created for Art Hoffman for changing fonts within a paragraph style – it worked for me. I have been looking for some time for something similar, but more in terms of a batch process, since nearly 1,000 documents are involved, spanning many different folders #d 0-20, with each folder having two sub-folders EN and FR. This would be very monotonous converting one at a time!!
    Any ideas, please?
    Thanks.
    David Loveday

  • November 8, 2019 at 6:05 am #14323783
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    David — This script: https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html is a general batch processor. You can run a script with it as well, see the section ‘Run a script’ on that page.

    The script I posted above needs some changes before you can use it in the batch processor:

    (function () {
var pstyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;
for (var i = 1; i < pstyles.length; i++) {
if (pstyles[i].appliedFont.fontFamily == 'Arial') {
pstyles[i].appliedFont = 'Roboco';
}
}

    }());
    

    Peter

  • November 8, 2019 at 6:11 am #14323782
    Peter Kahrel

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    I’ll try again.

    (function () {
var pstyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;
for (var i = 1; i < pstyles.length; i++) {
if (pstyles[i].appliedFont.fontFamily == 'Arial') {
pstyles[i].appliedFont = 'Roboco';
}
}
}());


  • November 8, 2019 at 7:19 am #14323778
    Jeremy Howard

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    This can also be easily accomplished by using the Find Font dialog (found under Type>Find Font).

    Once you have that dialog open, simply select the font that you want to replace, specify the replacement font and make sure you have the “Redefine Styles” option ticked on. Click “Replace” and all of your style sheets will be updated.

    No need for scripts on this one!

  • November 8, 2019 at 10:10 am #14323769
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    For a single document or a small handful of documents your method would certainly the recommended method, Jeremy. But when you have 1,000 files…

  • November 8, 2019 at 2:11 pm #14323751
    David Loveday

    Participant

    Hello all,
    Thank you so much for you help. I will give it a try…

    Regards.

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