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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);