set character position AS--InDesign CS2

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#1

Hi All,

Below is the code, but it is not working. I want to set the position of the character at -375.


tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	set myDoc to front document
	tell myDoc
		set position of character "-" of every story whose contents is "o-" to "-375"
		
	end tell
end tell

Thanks
Rajeev Kumar

#2

Hi Rajeev - the “position” of text or a character in inDesign only accepts a few variables - none of them are in the format you are reffering to: (this is from the Applescript library for inDesign)

position (anything) : The position of the text. Can return: normal/superscript/subscript/OT superscript/OT subscript/OT numerator/OT denominator or nothing.

So- to superscript a character - you would say something like:

set postion of character 1 to superscript

I think maybe you are looking for “tracking” or “kerning” of the text. Please be more specific if you can.

Chris