Break link to Character Style with JS (CS4ME)

Hi,
I'm wondering how to break a link to a character style in JS. By break
link I mean removing the character style but preserving the formatting.
Given a selected textStyleRange, say, in the UI there are two ways of
doing this. One is to click "Break link to Style" in the flyout meny of
the character style palette.
The other is to right-click and select "Apply character style."
It's a little unintuitive, because CLICKING on removes overrides,
but right-clicking and selecting the menu option doesn't.
So when I saw that, I said to myself aha! Probably:
myText.appliedCharacterStyle = myCharStyle
is equivalent to clicking on , while
myText.applyCharacterStyle(myCharStyle)
is equivalent to right-clicking on and choosing "Apply character
style."
But it isn't.
They both apply None and remove all formatting.
So, anyone know how to break a link to character style without removing
formatting in JS?
Thanks,
Ariel

Thanks Peter. That's interesting. After Shabbos I'll have to try figure
out how to apply a character style without removing overrides as well.
It may be a two-step procedure.
Thanks,
Ariel

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Niceties of apply the [None] character style and its relation to Break link to Character Style (CS4 upwards)

Hi,
Am I the last to realise that, with text selected, clicking on is
different from right-clicking on and selecting "Apply " in
the character palette?
Let me explain: Say you have some text selected. The text has a
character style applied called "Superscript", whose only attribute is to
apply superscript.
Now, with that text selected, if you click on the result is that
is applied and all formatting is lost.
But, if you right-click on and choose "Apply " from the
context menu, is applied but formatting is NOT list. Effectively
this is the equivalent of choosing "Break link to style" in the flyout
menu of the character palette.
Curious to know if you've come across that that distinction before?
Thanks,
Ariel

Sorry Peter. On behalf of the stupid Jive forums, I do apologize. Everywhere in my post where I wrote [None], it was jived up a little and changed to a link. (I've only got Internet access during breaks -- a self-imposed firewall that allows me to actually get some work done.)
The post shoudl have read:
Hi,
Am I the last to realise that, with text selected, clicking on [None] is different from right-clicking on [None] and selecting "Apply [None]" in the character palette?
Let me explain: Say you have some text selected. The text has a character style applied called "Superscript", whose only attribute is to apply superscript.
Now, with that text selected, if you click on [None] the result is that [None] is applied and all formatting is lost.
But, if you right-click on [None] and choose "Apply [None]" from the context menu, [None] is applied but formatting is NOT list. Effectively this is the equivalent of choosing "Break link to style" in the flyout menu of the character palette.
Curious to know if you've come across that that distinction before?
Thanks,
Ariel

[JS] How to break link to paragraph style from script?

I don't found the command break link to paragraph style from script.
I want "unapply" the style from the text, but leave the formatting intact.
Can help me?

In the interface it's a separate command ("Break link to style"), but it seems in a script you have to use
Paragraph.applyParagraphStyle (using:ParagraphStyle[, clearingOverrides:bool=true])
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<Regions><Region>
BIG BEND COUNTRY<City>
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</City_Name><Event_Name>
Big Bend Ranch Rodeo                                                                                </Event_Name>
<Date>August 8-9
</Date><Venue_Name>
Sul Ross State University S.A.L.E. Arena</Venue_Name>
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</Website1><Phone1>
4323642696</Phone1>
<Phone2></Phone2>
</City><City>
<City_Name>ALPINE
</City_Name><Event_Name>
Big Bend Balloon Bash                                                                               </Event_Name>
<Date>August 30-September 1
</Date><Venue_Name>
Alpine-Casparis Municipal Airport</Venue_Name>
<Website1>bigbendballoonbash.com
</Website1><Phone1>
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<Phone2></Phone2>
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<City_Name>EL PASO
</City_Name><Event_Name>
Alfresco! Fridays                                                                                   </Event_Name>
<Date>August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
</Date><Venue_Name>
Convention Center Plaza</Venue_Name>
<Website1>www.alfrescofridays.com
</Website1><Phone1>
915/534-0600</Phone1>
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For it to really auto-update the mirrorlist it has to be put in a cronjob :-)
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Numbered bullet character style with underline not showing

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[CS3 JS] Correcting a Character Style Anomaly

It used to be that you could define a character style to merely colour the text and give it an underline (e.g. for Hyperlinks) or just superscript the text (for Reference citations). When such styles, which do not call for a particular font or font size, are placed into InDesign CS, the styled text would take on the font and font size of the underlying paragraph style. However, after placing a Word .doc with these styles into a CS2 template, the font and font size becomes Times New Roman and 10 pt. The solution was to save an .rtf file and re-import the text. Now, in CS3 this work-around doesnt quite work: the font is okay, but the font size reverts to that default size of 10 pt.
So, I would like a script that finds all occurrences of two specific character styles (Hyperlink and bibref) and then corrects the font size of the found text to that of the underlying paragraph style. These styles can appear anywhere within a document, including in tables. I have trawled through this forum and found enough to be able to search for the character styles, but I cannot fathom how to apply the font size of the underlying paragraph style. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Peter
Thank you very much for your quick response. I tried your script and it did as you intended by clearing the Font, Font Style and Point Size in the character style, but unfortunately it did not correct the problem of the style becoming some default style and size (Times New Roman 10 pt) when placed into ID.
In fact, I had already set up the 'bibref' and 'Hyperlink' character styles with these fields blanked out. Also, I made Adobe aware of this bug when CS2 came out and they warned me that CS3 wouldn't fix the problem; but I didn't realize that CS3 would be worse than CS2 so that using an rtf file wouldn't fix things.
So, I am left with my initial query: is it possible to write a script to search for the character styles in question and apply the font size of the underlying paragraph style?
Thanks a lot for any help you can give.

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Hello Sjoerd,
One note about your method to retrieve all linked graphics: this will also process the graphics that might be linked into the master and reference pages. Just to be safe against unwanted side effects you should restrict your list of graphics to the ones in the main flow of your document.
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     while (aframe.ObjectValid()) {
         if (aframe.constructor.name == "AFrame") {
                                        graphic = aframe.FirstGraphicInFrame;
                                        if ( graphic.type == Constants.FO_Inset ) {
                                                       doc.AddText ( aframe.TextLoc, graphic.InsetFile );
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Break Link with Style

Hello all,
I need to break a link to an object style via script. I found this discussion:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b4d4d7
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Has anyone found out how to break the link without the object changing its formatting?
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[JS][CS3] Break Link to Style

Hello everyone.
A while back ago I wrote a script to Brake Links to Paragraph Styles and Character Styles. That was easy since you can set to false the option "Clearing Overrides" when applying "No Paragraph Style" [0] or "None" [0]. But I cannot do such a thing with objectStyles "None" [0] even when setting the options to False. Every time the TextFrames get the ObjectStyle "None". And the GUI Palette is not showing a "+" as being modified.
It does work when using "Break Link to Style" in the GUI.
Any help would be appreciated...
Alex.

CTC Imaging wrote:
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Alex.
Then you should add Date&Time at the end of name of current Char/Para/Object/Cell/TableStyle
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Hi
I'd like to select all text in a Document (in different independent textboxes) and then break the link to it's style (in the program in the Flyout-menu of the paragraph styles)
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Thanks

In fact, I use the adobe findchangebylist to modified, I want to do a clear setting script, not only break link to style, but when i run the script that will get error, can u help me to fix it, my script is shown as below:
main();
function main(){
var myObject;
//var myCheckSelection = false;
//Make certain that user interaction (display of dialogs, etc.) is turned on.
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
if(app.documents.length > 0){
if(app.selection.length > 0){
   switch(app.selection[0].constructor.name){
    case "InsertionPoint":
    case "Character":
    case "Word":
    case "TextStyleRange":
    case "Line":
    case "Paragraph":
    case "TextColumn":
    case "TextFrame":
    case "Text":
    case "Cell":
    case "Column":
    case "Row":
    case "Table":
     myDisplayDialog();
     break;
    default:
     //Something was selected, but it wasn't a text object, so search the document.
     //myFindChangeByList(app.documents.item(0));
                    //alert("Nothing Selected, Please Select Text Frame or Text.");
else{
   //Nothing was selected, so simply search the document.
            //myFindChangeByList(app.documents.item(0));
            alert("Nothing Selected, Please Select Text Frame or Text.");
else{
alert("No documents are open. Please open a document and try again.");
function myDisplayDialog(){
var myObject;
var myDialog = app.dialogs.add({name:"Joan New Clear Setting_v1.0"});
with(myDialog.dialogColumns.add()){
   with(dialogRows.add()){
   with(dialogColumns.add()){
staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Search Range:"});
     var mySearchButtons = radiobuttonGroups.add();
     with(mySearchButtons){
     radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"Current Document", checkedState:true});
                   if(app.selection[0].contents != ""){
    radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"Selection", checkedState:true});
   with(dialogColumns.add()){
    with(borderPanels.add()){
     staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Clear Setting:"});
     var myDateButtons = radiobuttonGroups.add();
     with(myDateButtons){
     radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"English", checkedState:true});
     radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"Chinese"});
var myResult = myDialog.show();
if(myResult == true){
switch(mySearchButtons.selectedButton){
   case 0:
                 BreakLinktoStyleDocument();
                 TurnOffHyphenationDocument();
                 myObject = app.documents.item(0);
                 myCheckSelection = false;
    break;
              case 1:
                 BreakLinktoStyleSelection();
                 TurnOffHyphenationSelection();
                 myObject = app.selection[0];
                 myCheckSelection = true;
    break;
switch(myDateButtons.selectedButton){
case 0:
myFindChangeByList1(myObject, myCheckSelection);
break;
case 1:
myFindChangeByList2(myObject, myCheckSelection);
break;
myDialog.destroy();
//myFindChangeByList1(myObject);
else{
myDialog.destroy();
function TurnOffHyphenationDocument() {
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().texts.everyItem().hyphenation=false;
myTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem();
myTables.cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().hyphenation=false;
function TurnOffHyphenationSelection() {
app.selection[0].texts[0].hyphenation=false;
app.selection[0].cells.everyItem().texts[0].hyphenation=false;
function BreakLinktoStyleDocument() {
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().texts.everyItem().applyParagraphStyle(app.activeDoc ument.paragraphStyles.item(0), false);
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().texts.everyItem().applyCharacterStyle(app.activeDoc ument.characterStyles.item(0), false);
myTables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem();
myTables.cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().applyParagraphStyle( app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item(0), false);
myTables.cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().applyCharacterStyle( app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(0), false);
function BreakLinktoStyleSelection() {
app.selection[0].texts.everyItem().applyParagraphStyle(app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles. item(0), false);
app.selection[0].texts.everyItem().applyCharacterStyle(app.activeDocument.characterStyles. item(0), false);
app.selection[0].cells.everyItem().texts[0].applyParagraphStyle(app.activeDocument.paragra phStyles.item(0), false);
app.selection[0].cells.everyItem().texts[0].applyCharacterStyle(app.activeDocument.charact erStyles.item(0), false);
function myFindChangeByList1(myObject, myCheckSelection){
var myScriptFileName, myFindChangeFile, myFindChangeFileName, myScriptFile, myResult;
var myFindChangeArray, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindLimit;
var myStartCharacter, myEndCharacter;
var myFindChangeFile = myFindFile("/ScriptSupport/te.txt")
if(myFindChangeFile != null){
        // Because the selection will change as we add/remove characters,
        // we'll need to reset the selection after each pass if we are
        // checking the selection. We'll get the index of the first character
        // in the selection (relative to the start of its parent story) and
        // the index of the last character in the selection (relative to the
        // *end* of the story, and we'll use them later in the script to
        // keep the ends of the selection in place.
if(myCheckSelection == true){
   var myStart = myObject.characters.item(0).index;
   var myEnd = myObject.characters.item(-1).index;
   var myStory = myObject.parentStory;
   var myStoryEnd = myStory.characters.item(-1).index;
   myEnd = (myStoryEnd - myEnd)+1;
myFindChangeFile = File(myFindChangeFile);
var myResult = myFindChangeFile.open("r", undefined, undefined);
if(myResult == true){
   //Loop through the find/change operations.
   do{
    myLine = myFindChangeFile.readln();
    //Ignore comment lines and blank lines.
    if((myLine.substring(0,4)!="text")||(myLine.substring(0,4)!="grep")||(myLine.substring(0, 5)!="glyph")){
     myFindChangeArray = myLine.split("\t");
     //The first field in the line is the findType string.
     myFindType = myFindChangeArray[0];
     //The second field in the line is the FindPreferences string.
     myFindPreferences = myFindChangeArray[1];
     //The second field in the line is the ChangePreferences string.
     myChangePreferences = myFindChangeArray[2];
     //The fourth field is the range--used only by text find/change.
     myFindChangeOptions = myFindChangeArray[3];
     switch(myFindType){
      case "text":
       myFindText(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions);
       break;
      case "grep":
       myFindGrep(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions);
       break;
      case "glyph":
       myFindGlyph(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions);
       break;
     if(myCheckSelection == true){
      myStartCharacter = myStory.characters.item(myStart);
      myEndCharacter = myStory.characters.item(-myEnd);
      myObject = myStory.texts.itemByRange(myStartCharacter, myEndCharacter);
      app.select (myObject);
   } while(myFindChangeFile.eof == false);
   myFindChangeFile.close();
alert("Done");
function myFindText(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions){
//Reset the find/change preferences before each search.
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeTextOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
var myString = "app.findTextPreferences.properties = "+ myFindPreferences + ";";
myString += "app.changeTextPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
myString += "app.findChangeTextOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
app.doScript(myString, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
myFoundItems = myObject.changeText();
//Reset the find/change preferences after each search.
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeTextOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myFindGrep(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions){
//Reset the find/change grep preferences before each search.
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGrepOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
var myString = "app.findGrepPreferences.properties = "+ myFindPreferences + ";";
myString += "app.changeGrepPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
myString += "app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
app.doScript(myString, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
var myFoundItems = myObject.changeGrep();
//Reset the find/change grep preferences after each search.
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGrepOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myFindGlyph(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions){
//Reset the find/change glyph preferences before each search.
app.changeGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGlyphOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
var myString = "app.findGlyphPreferences.properties = "+ myFindPreferences + ";";
myString += "app.changeGlyphPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
myString += "app.findChangeGlyphOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
app.doScript(myString, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
var myFoundItems = myObject.changeGlyph();
//Reset the find/change glyph preferences after each search.
app.changeGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findChangeGlyphOptions = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myFindFile(myFilePath){
var myScriptFile = myGetScriptPath();
var myScriptFile = File(myScriptFile);
var myScriptFolder = myScriptFile.path;
myFilePath = myScriptFolder + myFilePath;
if(File(myFilePath).exists == false){
//Display a dialog.
myFilePath = File.openDialog("Choose the file containing your find/change list");
return myFilePath;
function myGetScriptPath(){
try{
myFile = app.activeScript;
catch(myError){
myFile = myError.fileName;
return myFile;
and here is my text file, te.txt
//001
grep {findWhat:"."} {appliedLanguage: app.languagesWithVendors.item("English: USA"), kerningMethod: "無"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
//002
grep {findWhat:"."} {kinsokuSet: "繁體中文避頭尾(s)"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
//003
grep {findWhat:"."} {mojikumi: "nothing"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
//004
grep {findWhat:"."} {ligatures:false} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
//005
grep {findWhat:"."} {gridAlignment: 1852796517} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, includeLockedStoriesForFind:true, widthSensitive:true}
//006
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//007
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I haven't been able to find anything equivalent to the "Break Link to Style" functionality in looking through the Object Browser. Finding all objects with [Basic Graphics Frame] object style and applying an object style of [None] doesn't do the same result. Any ideas?

hi:
//FindObjectPreference
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includeFootnotes: true,
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InDesign CS5, windows 7
I am hoping for some guidance.
I am creating a directory from an Excel file. This is what I have done and where I am at.
1. Edited Excel File to ad "Headers" for Name, Address, etc...
2. Used Mail Merge in MS word to create a Directory.
- Created Character Styles in word for different fields.
- Did some minor editing to remove stray spaces, etc...
3. Placed wrod file in InDesign. Layout is created with basic text boxes that are split into 4 columns, each box linked to the next (I have about 30 pages of this).
At first, this was working OK, but the CHaracter styles were not coming through (Actually, they were lost during the merge in Word). So, I did some work and found that there was a code I could add to the Merge Fields oin Word to force the Character styles to be retained.
Anyway, I did that. However, now when I place the Word File in InDesign, it appears to hang at "Processing Character Styles".
I removed the code from the merge, figuring I could go back, but I still get that hang.
Any suggestions are appreciated...
-kaz

Any suggestions are appreciated...
I think I followed most of your explanation. But, since we can't see what you're doing, it's hard to know 100% what your reasons are for doing what you do. F'rinstance, I wonder why you're bothering with the Word merge at all. Without knowing why you have to run the merge in Word, I'd suggest this:
add headers to your Excel file
save out .csv
Use InDesign's Data Merge tool, skip Word entirely
Why do you need to use Word's Mail Merge? If you've never used Data Merge in ID, you should probably take a look at the Help file entry to see if it will work for you.

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