Thank you Dwayne for your answer but it’s not that. These topics are mostly about the installed fonts either in Windows/Mac system or in Adobe’s or inDesign’s Fonts folder or the “Document fonts” subfolder of the document’s location.

I don’t know how to insert an image here so I can’t show you it now but when you select Find/Change from the main menu, then click on the upper magnifying glass then you get to the Find attributes (or what) palette, where you can select the font family you would like to find. It’s not what I’m talking about yet but right below this there is a Font style dropdown menü. That’s it.

Now: in that menu there is a swarm of unknown font styles, at least unknown for me. Font style “E” or “M” for example, or “Banner Italic”. “Arial Bold” is a font we all know. “Arial M” or any other font family with font style “M”… well…

These exotic font styles make this list unusably long, that’s why I’d like to shorten it somehow.

Sorry, second try:

Hi friends,

I am trying to copy the character attributes of one paragraph’s characters onto the characters of another paragraph. There may be up to (say) 10 different types of local formatting in the source paragraph. The rules on how to do this are complicated: it’s not simply that character[1] of the destination paragraph should look like the character[1] of the source, and so on with char[2], char[3] etc., the special chars are mixed up, the number of characters and even the language of the two paragraphs are different.

My problem is that I can’t get (or set, btw.) the attributes like this:


myChrProps=myParagraph.characters[i].properties;


because I get error message: Object is invalid.
Okay, I tried this:


myTemp=myParagraph.characters.everyItem().getElements();
myChrProps=myTemp[i].properties;


Te result is the same, error message on the first line.
Well, let’s try this:


myTemp=myParagraph; alert(myTemp+"\r"+myTemp.length);
myTemp=myTemp.characters; alert(myTemp+"\r"+myTemp.length);
myTemp=myTemp.everyItem(); alert(myTemp+"\r"+myTemp.length);
myTemp=myTemp.getElements(); alert(myTemp+"\r"+myTemp.length);
myChrprops=myTemp[i].properties;


Aaaaaand victory!!! I could even define a character style with the props I got in response.
BUT the same code without the alerts leads to the error message again.

Can someone explain me what’s going on?

Tom

Ok, let’s try it again :)

With the pre tag:

if (app.activeDocument.selection.length==0) exit();
if (!app.activeDocument.selection[0].hasOwnProperty("cells")) exit();
var myCtemp=app.activeDocument.selection[0].cells;
if (myCtemp.length==0) exit();

app.doScript(AlignNums,ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,undefined,UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT,"Table Numbers");

function AlignNums(){
var myWo=[], myWt=[], myCells=[], myOi, myTextw;
for (var i=0; i<1000; i++) myWt[i]=0;

for (var i=0; i<myCtemp.length; i++) {
    if (myCtemp[i].rowType!=RowTypes.BODY_ROW) continue;
    myCells.push(myCtemp[i]);
    myOi=myCtemp[i].parentColumn.index;
    myWo[myOi]=myCtemp[i].width;
    myTextw=myCtemp[i].texts[0];
    myTextw=myTextw.endHorizontalOffset-myTextw.horizontalOffset;
    myWt[myOi]=Math.max(myTextw,myWt[myOi]);
    };

for (var i=0; i<myCells.length; i++){
    myOi=myCells[i].parentColumn.index;
    myTextw=(myWo[myOi]-myWt[myOi])/2;
    myCells[i].leftInset=0;
    myCells[i].texts[0].justification=Justification.RIGHT_ALIGN;
    myCells[i].rightInset=myTextw;
    };
};

By the way: how could I delete/modify my earlier posts?

Sorry?

I mean I see it’s mean but I don’t know how to be professional :)