Indesign CS3: Getting point size, font from text style range

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#1

Here’s a snippet that’s my issue at the moment:


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
	tell text style range 1 of text frame 1 of spread 1 of document 1
		--get properties
		get size
	end tell
end tell

This fails even though I see a “Size: 13.0” in the property list?

On a related note, I’m also trying to coerce "font “Times New Roman MT Std Bold” of application “Adobe InDesign CS3"” to get just “Times New Roman MT Std” into a string.

The style comes out nicely, though.

Perhaps I’m not seeing something that’s obvious? thanx, sam

#2

Try this:

set ASTD to AppleScript's text item delimiters

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	tell text style range 1 of text frame 1 of spread 1 of document 1
		set TheSize to point size
		set TheFont to name of applied font
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab
		set TheFontName to text item 1 of TheFont
		set TheFontStyle to text item 2 of TheFont
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASTD
	end tell
end tell
return {TheFontName, TheFontStyle, TheSize}

I’m using text item delimiters to parse out the font name and style of the font from the returned value, the two are separated by a tab in the string ID gives to AppleScript.

#3

Yes, Happiness reigns! Two problems solved at once, thanx, sam