Find all Skew characters

Question

Hi ALL,
Is it possible to find the Skew content in the document???
For example, if the skew is like as 1 to 180 etc.,
We can catch the skew characters like as below only
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 8;       //this is possible
app.findTextPreferences.skew = -20;    //this is possible
Thanks in advance
Siraj 

Answer 1

@Chinna – you can skew a text by -1.5 .
So it seems to be best:
If you do not have assigned any character styles:
1. First find all not skewed text and assign a character style
2. Search for text with character style "None" => all found texts are skewed by some value
Or, if there are already character styles into play:
1. First find all not skewed text and change the value of a property, that is never set to a special value throughout all texts in your document. Set this property to a special value.
2. Do a search where this value is set to default => all found texts are skewed by some value!
Here some code to show this with the property strikeThru that should be not used in the text!
Find a different one that is working with findTextPrefernces or changeTextPreferences, if you are using strikeThru in the formatting of your text!
//strikeThru is NOT used in the document!
var mySkope = app.documents[0];
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
//First find all text that is not skewed:
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 0;
//Format the found text with a property not used in the text:
app.changeTextPreferences.strikeThru = true;
mySkope.changeText();
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
//Find all text that is not set with that property.
//THAT must be the text skewed in various angles:
app.findTextPreferences.strikeThru = false;
var mySkewedTextsArray = mySkope.findText();
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
//Skewed texts contents written to console:
//Or do here something else with the skewed text!
for(var n=0; n<mySkewedTextsArray.length;n++){
    $.writeln(mySkewedTextsArray[n].contents);
//Reset the property used for the not-skewed text:
app.findTextPreferences.strikeThru = true;
app.changeTextPreferences.strikeThru = false;
mySkope.changeText();
app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null;
Uwe