Where do you call the function in your main code? Are you sure you are passing a Document reference to it?

Also are you sure that is the correct font in the findWhat? One has XE in the font name, while the change font name does not.

Are you just changing one or two existing Paragraph Styles with this new hyphenation? If so, probably just easier to set up corresponding Paragraph Styles with the right hyphenation settings and doing a Find/Replace. Also, what is that dropdown at the end of your image? I don’t see it in my Hyphenation settings. Maybe a plugin? Not sure that would be scriptable, unless I’m missing something.

Hi Mark,

You can try this script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpobojewski/InDesign-Toolbox/master/Resize%20Selected%20Items.jsx

You can also select all the objects you want, and set the anchor point to the top center or left center point (the grid in properties), then type -.25 in the W (width) property.

If you want to roll your own, here’s how to get started:

This line of code will get you the current selection as an “array”, meaning you can select multiple text frames and iterate through them.

var selections = app.selection;

The iteration looks like this:

for (var i = 0; i < selections.length; i++) {

}

Inside the bracket, you’ll want to get the frame’s coordinates and use either resize or reframe. This part is a bit complicated, but essentially you are using the “resolve” method of a frame to get its current coordinates, then performing math on those coordinates and using resize or reframe using points (9 points = .125 in).
var frame = selections[i];
var topleft = frame.resolve(AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR, CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, true)[0];
var bottomright = frame.resolve(AnchorPoint.BOTTOM_RIGHT_ANCHOR, CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, true)[0];
var x1 = topleft[0] + 9;
var y1 = topleft[1];
var x2 = bottomright[0] – 9;
var y2 = bottomright[1];
frame.reframe(CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, [[x1, y1], [x2, y2]], true);

In that math, you are moving the x1 coordinate inward by 9 points (.125 in) and shrinking the x2 coordinate by .125. If you to change the height, you’d do the same operations on the y coordinates.

The full code put together:

var selections = app.selection;
for (var i = 0; i < selections.length; i++) {
var frame = selections[i];
var topleft = frame.resolve(AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR, CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES)[0];
var bottomright = frame.resolve(AnchorPoint.BOTTOM_RIGHT_ANCHOR, CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES)[0];
var x1 = topleft[0] + 9;
var y1 = topleft[1];
var x2 = bottomright[0] – 9;
var y2 = bottomright[1];
frame.reframe(CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, [[x1, y1], [x2, y2]]);
}

This also assumes you don’t need to resize the containing images after the resize. There’s lots of things that go into writing a script to do what you want to do, but hope this gives you a good starting point for understanding.

Resurrecting this thread, as I’m struggling to get certain rows selected in a table.

I want to select all rows after a certain point in the table using itemByRange. I’m trying the following.

var rowsToMove = table.rows.itemByRange(i, rowCount-1).getElements();
app.select(rowsToMove, SelectionOptions.REPLACE_WITH);

I get the following error on the app.select line: Error Code# 30477: Invalid value for parameter ‘selectableItems’ of method ‘select’. Expected Object, Array of Objects, NothingEnum enumerator or SelectAll enumerator, but received (Row, Row, Row, Row, Row, Row)

I’ve tried setting app.selection[0] = rowsToMove; I’ve tried rowsToMove without the getElements(). Mind-boggling.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Sure. With the text in question selected:

var chars = app.selection[0].characters;
var fonts = [“Font1”, “Font2”, “Font3”, “Font4”];
for (var i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
var rando = Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(4));
chars[i].appliedFont = fonts[rando];
}

This is a pretty niche thing, so don’t think a script exists for it. You could create a paragraph style that does what you want, then cycle through the paragraphs, see if they have 3 or fewer lines, and apply the paragraph style to those lines?

Are you using string.replace? Have you tried changing one graf with GREP. If that works, you could set a GREP replace script instead of string.replace, replacing with that arrow character with the character that copies over and maybe setting that character with a style that you can apply on the GREP replace?