Hi I’m very new at this.
I’m trying to find a way to get InDesignCS2 to apply an existing Paragraph Style to newly imported text in a text frame in an open document. I’m running OSX3.9 Panther. I found a run-only script that will work for OSX4, but I don’t have OSX4. Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
This is a script for InDesign CS to format basic information (Company Name, slogan, address, phone number & email); but it should give you a place to start. It gets the names of all the paragraph styles and applies them depending on how many paragraphs there are and whether there is an email address. Send me an email if I may be of further assistance. ~Michelle
tell application "InDesign CS"
if not (exists active document) then
display dialog ¬
"No InDesign files are open. Press any key to continue or any other key to erase your hard drive." buttons {"OK"} ¬
default button "OK" with icon "warning"
return
end if
set theDoc to the active document
set pCount to count of paragraph styles of theDoc
if pCount > 1 then
set pStyles to the name of paragraph styles of theDoc whose name is not "[No paragraph style]"
set pCount to (pCount - 1)
repeat with i from 1 to (pCount)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set L to (pStyles) as string
end repeat
end if
tell theDoc
set pStyles to the name of paragraph styles of theDoc whose name is not "[No paragraph style]"
set sCount to count of pStyles
set aName to item 1 of pStyles as string
set bName to item 2 of pStyles as string
set cName to item 3 of pStyles as string
set dName to item 4 of pStyles as string
if sCount = 5 then
set eName to item 5 of pStyles as string
else
set eName to ""
end if
--we have multiple templates, so the paragraph styles aren't consistent and couldn't be named directly
set aTest to {"address", "plain"}
set bTest to {"italic", "product"}
set cTest to {"main", "company"}
set dTest to {"phone", "bold"}
set eTest to {"email"}
repeat with i from 1 to (sCount)
set thisTest to item i of pStyles as string
if aTest contains first word of (thisTest) then
set plainStyle to paragraph style (thisTest) of the theDoc
else if bTest contains first word of thisTest then
set italicStyle to paragraph style (thisTest) of the theDoc
else if cTest contains first word of thisTest then
set mainStyle to paragraph style (thisTest) of the theDoc
else if dTest contains first word of thisTest then
set phoneStyle to paragraph style (thisTest) of the theDoc
else if eTest contains first word of thisTest then
set emailStyle to paragraph style (thisTest) of the theDoc
end if
end repeat
end tell
tell theDoc
repeat with i from 1 to (count text frames)
set theContents to the contents of text frame i
if the (count of the paragraphs of theContents) ≥ 2 then
set thisFrame to text frame i
set theContents to the contents of thisFrame
set parCount to (count of the paragraphs of theContents)
set a to the 1st paragraph of theContents
set b to the 2nd paragraph of theContents
if parCount > 2 then set c to the 3rd paragraph of theContents
if parCount > 3 then set d to the 4th paragraph of theContents
if parCount > 4 then set e to the 5th paragraph of theContents
if parCount = 2 then
tell the 1st paragraph of theContents
apply style using (mainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
if b contains "@" then
set b to (a reference to the 2nd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell b
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 2nd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (phoneStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
else
if parCount = 3 then
tell the 1st paragraph of theContents
apply style using (mainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
if b contains "@" then
set b to (a reference to the 2nd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell b
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 2nd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (plainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
if c contains "@" then
set c to (a reference to the 3rd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell c
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 3rd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (phoneStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
else
if parCount = 4 then
tell the 1st paragraph of theContents
apply style using (mainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
if b contains "@" then
set b to (a reference to the 2nd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell b
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 2nd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (italicStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
if c contains "@" then
set c to (a reference to the 3rd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell c
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 3rd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (plainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
if d contains "@" then
set d to (a reference to the 4th paragraph of thisFrame)
tell d
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 4th paragraph of theContents
apply style using (phoneStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
else
if parCount = 5 then
tell the 1st paragraph of theContents
apply style using (mainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
if b contains "@" then
set b to (a reference to the 2nd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell b
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 2nd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (italicStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
if c contains "@" then
set c to (a reference to the 3rd paragraph of thisFrame)
tell c
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 3rd paragraph of theContents
apply style using (plainStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
if d contains "@" then
set d to (a reference to the 4th paragraph of thisFrame)
tell d
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 4th paragraph of theContents
apply style using (phoneStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
if e contains "@" then
set e to (a reference to the 5th paragraph of thisFrame)
tell e
apply style using (emailStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
else
tell the 5th paragraph of theContents
apply style using (phoneStyle) without clearing overrides
end tell
end if
end if
end if
end if
end if
end if
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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