[CS3] [JS] Find Change Aesthetic Kerning Pairs

Hi,
I want to find and "erase" all the aesthetic kerning values in a document with Find Change.
How do I say: "app.findTextPreferences.kerningValue" != (zero or null)
Thanks
PJB

Can't do that. ID can't find "other" attributes, only specified ones.
This one regularly bites me when authors don't use Superscript and Subscript, but make their text a few pts smaller and move it up/down a few points -- and I bet it's their (w|W)ord processor that does it!
"A" solution (as opposed to "the") is to mark all 'good' text with S&R with a color, then search for orginally-colored text.
.. Although, in your case, I think you can set all kerning to 0 and be done with it.

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[CS3][JS] find/change quotation marks to typographer quotes

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Hi Peter,
your solution is pretty good while the pairs of quotes are complete and you only use one sort of typographer quotes.
But what if once the final quote is missing?
Or if you want to use different language sensitive quotes for a document with multilingual text?
Another approach is to take use of the execution of typographer quotes of InDesign itself.
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That's not what you have been looking for. ;-)
You first have to make all non-typographical quotes to one specific typographical quote (right or wrong) or a placeholder. And than you have to change the specific typographical quotes to the non-typographical quotes (sic!). After that you will find your language-sensitive quotes.
Here is an example.
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But it's language sensitive! ;-)
After all, apostrophes () will disturb the changing also in this approach, because they are not recognized as apostrophes but as single typographical quotes.
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Fellow Scripters--
In several places in the Scripting Guide, I set the find/change options to nothing. This is an error. Setting the find/change
preferences to nothing works; setting find/change
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http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2080627-12695/FindChangeByListCS4.zip
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Hello folks
I am bit pretty in InDesign scripting so could you please look into this.
How can i change any particular text field in Indesign CS3 document from text file.
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Many Tanks in advance

In the FindChangeByList script, you could customize the function myFindFile(myFilePath) {...} as to search the FindChangeList text file in the document location rather than the script location. That's an example. The question is: given a document, where will you have the corresponding FindChangeList?
@+
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--A support file for the InDesign CS3 AppleScript FindChangeByList.applescript
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--findType<tab>findProperties<tab>changeProperties<tab>findChangeOptions<tab>description
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text {find what:""} {change to:"^S"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find all italics and replace with non-breaking space.

You probably should post this in the ID Scripting forum. Here's an example of some simple AppleScript find and changes that might help:
--find and replace keyboard formating
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
 --first clear the preferences
 set find text preferences to nothing
 set change text preferences to nothing
 --replaces non breaking space with space
 set find what of find text preferences to "^s"
 set change to of change text preferences to "<0020>"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^n"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^p<0020>"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^p^p"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^p^t^p"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "<0020>^p"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^p"
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 set find what of find text preferences to "<0020><0020>"
 set change to of change text preferences to "<0020>"
 set myFoundItems to change text
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 set find what of find text preferences to "^t^t^t"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^t"
 set myFoundItems to change text
 --replaces 2 tabs with tab
 set find what of find text preferences to "^t^t"
 set change to of change text preferences to "^t"
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Multiple find/changes into one step?

Hi there
I have a series of find / changes that I need to do for all the chapters in a book. They'll be the same each time, and rather than do all ten of them for each chapter I'm wondering how I can condense it into one process that I can run on each chapter, perhaps through scripting. Any ideas?
I do have a little scripting experience, but not enough to tackle it myself yet. Is there another way to automate the steps? Or does anyone have some base code I could work from?
I'm working in CS3 on a Mac.

One of the standard scripts that come with InDesign is FindChangeByList.jsx -- it's installed by default in Application/Samples/Javascript. There is also a VB version.
You don't have to adjust the script; the changes it makes are listed in a specialized format in the file FindChangeList.txt.

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Hi Seth,
re: "Supposedly their is a "new" FindChangeByList.jsx somewhere that works, but I am unable to find it. the scripting/index page on adobe's website is useless, and provides no help what so ever. no links either."
I just looked, and everything is still working. Go to:
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/index.html
Then click the Scripting Resources tab.
Here are the direct links that might be helpful--first, updated sample scripts:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/downloads/indesign_cs 3_sample_scripts.zip
Second, the scripts that go with the Scripting Guide:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/downloads/indesign_cs 3_guide_scripts.zip
In the latter, you should take a look at the ReadPMTags.jsx script (it's in the Text folder inside the JavaScript folder of the uncompressed archive). You can take the function (of the same name) from that script and modify it to do exactly what you want.
Also, if you don't see links or information at that page--which browser are you using?
Thanks,
Ole

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Hello.
I am trying to come up with a script that would change a specific group of fonts, that will always show up missing, to the new font. Basically, it is a bunch of our postscript fonts that are now using our open type font. Below is what I have so far. I want to create a list that goes through about 8 fonts that are old and replace them on the fly with the 8 new fonts. This would be great if I could have this happen on open.
Can anyone see what I have and offer some guidance?
thanks
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Open this Scriplet in your Editor:
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For starters, you're going to have to use the correct font names, including correct capitalization. The property you want to change is "applied font", not "find what". And it would probably be more sensible, to go through all paragraph and character styles and make the changes there first, otherwise you'll have troubles again every time you edit stuff.
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