Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Applying a Font; Changing Text Properties

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Formatting Text 94
Applying a font
To apply a local font change to a range of text, use the appliedFont property, as shown in the following
script fragment (from the ApplyFont tutorial script):
//Given a font name "myFontName" and a text object "myText"...
myText.appliedFont = app.fonts.item(myFontName);
You also can apply a font by specifying the font family name and font style, as shown in the following script
fragment:
myText.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Adobe Caslon Pro");
myText.fontStyle = "Semibold Italic";
Changing text properties
Text objects in InDesign have literally dozens of properties corresponding to their formatting attributes.
Even one insertion point features properties that affect the formatting of text—up to and including
properties of the paragraph containing the insertion point. The SetTextProperties tutorial script shows
how to set every property of a text object. A fragment of the script is shown below:
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);
var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();
myTextFrame.contents = "x";
var myTextObject = myTextFrame.parentStory.characters.item(0);
myTextObject.alignToBaseline = false;
myTextObject.appliedCharacterStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("[None]");
myTextObject.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Minion ProRegular");
myTextObject.appliedLanguage = app.languagesWithVendors.item("English: USA");
myTextObject.appliedNumberingList = myDocument.numberingLists.item("[Default]");
myTextObject.appliedParagraphStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("[No Paragraph
Style]");
myTextObject.autoLeading = 120;
myTextObject.balanceRaggedLines = BalanceLinesStyle.noBalancing;
myTextObject.baselineShift = 0;
myTextObject.bulletsAlignment = ListAlignment.leftAlign;
myTextObject.bulletsAndNumberingListType = ListType.noList;
myTextObject.bulletsCharacterStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("[None]");
myTextObject.bulletsTextAfter = "^t";
myTextObject.capitalization = Capitalization.normal;
myTextObject.composer = "Adobe Paragraph Composer";
myTextObject.desiredGlyphScaling = 100;
myTextObject.desiredLetterSpacing = 0;
myTextObject.desiredWordSpacing = 100;
myTextObject.dropCapCharacters = 0;
myTextObject.dropCapLines = 0;
myTextObject.dropCapStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("[None]");
myTextObject.dropcapDetail = 0;
myTextObject.fillColor = myDocument.colors.item("Black");
myTextObject.fillTint = -1;
myTextObject.firstLineIndent = 0;
myTextObject.fontStyle = "Regular";
myTextObject.gradientFillAngle = 0;
myTextObject.gradientFillLength = -1;
myTextObject.gradientFillStart = [0,0];
myTextObject.gradientStrokeAngle = 0;
myTextObject.gradientStrokeLength = -1;