Adobe 0046100128056 Scripting Guide - Page 98
the complete script, see CreateStyles
UPC - 718659087562
View all Adobe 0046100128056 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals |
Page 98 highlights
CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Formatting Text 98 the keys to text formatting productivity and should be a central part of any script that applies text formatting. The following example script fragment shows how to create and apply paragraph and character styles (for the complete script, see CreateStyles): var myDocument = app.documents.item(0); var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0); //Create a color for use by one of the paragraph styles we'll create. try{ myColor = myDocument.colors.item("Red"); //If the color does not exist, trying to get its name will generate an error. myName = myColor.name; } catch (myError){ //The color style did not exist, so create it. myColor = myDocument.colors.add({name:"Red", model:ColorModel.process, colorValue:[0, 100, 100, 0]}); } //Create a text frame on the active page. var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add(); //Set the bounds of the text frame. myTextFrame.geometricBounds = myGetBounds(myDocument, myPage); //Fill the text frame with placeholder text. myTextFrame.contents = "Normal text. Text with a character style applied to it. More normal text."; //Create a character style named "myCharacterStyle" if //no style by that name already exists. try{ myCharacterStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("myCharacterStyle"); //If the style does not exist, trying to get its name will generate an error. myName = myCharacterStyle.name; } catch (myError){ //The style did not exist, so create it. myCharacterStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.add({name:"myCharacterStyle"}); } //At this point, the variable myCharacterStyle contains a reference to a character //style object, which you can now use to specify formatting. myCharacterStyle.fillColor = myColor; //Create a paragraph style named "myParagraphStyle" if //no style by that name already exists. try{ myParagraphStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("myParagraphStyle"); //If the paragraph style does not exist, trying to get its name will generate an error. myName = myParagraphStyle.name; } catch (myError){ //The paragraph style did not exist, so create it. myParagraphStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.add({name:"myParagraphStyle"}); } //At this point, the variable myParagraphStyle contains a reference to a paragraph //style object, which you can now use to specify formatting. myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item(0).applyParagraphStyle(myParagraphStyle, true); var myStartCharacter = myTextFrame.parentStory.characters.item(13); var myEndCharacter = myTextFrame.parentStory.characters.item(54); myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.itemByRange(myStartCharacter, myEndCharacter).applyParagraphStyle(myParagraphStyle, true);