[JS] About Paragraph Style

Hello,
There is a problem when you use following script. The error is "Object does not support method or property paragraphStyleGroups "
var myStory = myDocument.pages.item(0).place(File(mypath_new), [myX, myY], undefined, false, true)[0];
for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter < myStory.textContainers.length; myCounter++)
myStory.textContainers[myCounter].applyObjectStyle(myDocument.objectStyles.item("2 Legs Leading Top"));
myStory.texts.item(0).paragraphStyleGroups.item("NYT Byline & Text Styles").paragraphStyles.item("NYT Text");
Can anybody help me to solve this problem.

I am trying to flow the text first using command place. Then i need to apply object style to text frame and paragraph style to the text. I am getting perfect result for object style. But i am getting error for paragraph style.
I know we can include paragraph style as a part of object style and i did that. Still when i am applying the object style on text frame the paragraph style is Basic (Default). So that is why i want to apply paragraph style differently. Not as a part of object style.
This might be bug in ID.
--Avi

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regards,
K

K,
Styles are attached to specific documents. So when you create a new one, save the document, it will only apply to that saved document, and not other ones you open ...
... with one exception. Start with a blank document, set it up the way you want (fonts, views, rulers, styles, etc.), then click on File > Save As Template. Finally, click on Pages > Preferences > and set that template as your startup document. That way, every time Pages opens, you'll have your preferred styles right there handy.
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zidane010h wrote:
actually I do not know anything about paragraph style and I just designed my pages manually
This would be a good time to learn about styles, and if this is a class project they should have covered styles in your class.
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For designing a book I receive a lot of unformatted text from different people. Now, of cause I need styles for different cases. One of those is a question-answer-style (interview -> see image below). You normaly can create a paragraph-style with the option to have, after pushing RETURN, another style (I think in english it has to be „use next style“). Okay, my problem is it works ONLY when I start typing the text word by word in Indesign an push RETURN and going on typing... That´s not what I want. My idea was, to copy an paste the whole text from Word (or from wherever) to Indesign and give´em the style it needs.
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Nochmal auf Deutsch, falls es missverständlich war:
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Ok, I understand both, German and English.
Ok, ich versteh’ beides, deutsch und englisch.
When you select several paragraphs you can go to first paraagraph style in the pargraph style panel and choose with the right mouse click in the context menu:
You can apply:
This selected style
This selected style and delete Overrides and/or Character Styles
This style then next style
This style then next style and delete Overrides and/or Character Styles
Wenn Du mehrere Absätze ausgewählt hast, kannst Du im Absatzformatbedienfeld mit der rechten Maustaste das Absatzformat für den ersten Absatz auswählen und mit der rechten Maustauste aus dem Kontextmenü aus den verschiedenen Varianten wählen. Siehe oben in der Abbildung.
Die Menüvarianten mit nächsten Absatz und Zeichenformate und Überschreibungen (nicht in der Abbildung) sind nur dann im Menü vefügbar, wenn das Absatzformat erstens einen entsprechenden Nächsten Absatz definiert hat bzw. Vorkommnisse von Zeichenformaten und/oder Überschreibungen vorkommen.
PS. Es existiert auch ein deutsches Adobe U2U-Forum.
Addition / Ergänzung:
If the text is in only one frame or in only one cell of a table there exists as well the function next paragraph style. When you apply such an objects style to a text frame or to a cell of a table all text is formated according the first paragraph style choosen in the object style or cell style and the following paragraphs are styled as defined in next paragraph,
Wenn der Text nur in einem Textrahmen oder innerhalb einer Zelle einer Tabelle ist, dann besteht die Möglichkeit, dass im Objekt- bzw. Zellenformat unter Absatzformat erstens dieses aktiviert wird und zweitens, das nächste Absatzformat aktiviert wird. Dadurch werden bei Anwendung des Objekt- bzw. Zellformats der erste Absatz und die darauffolgenden entsprechen mit den definierten Absatzformaten und nächsten Absatzformaten formatiert.
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FYI .. using InDesign cs5.5

I am now wondering about a possible solution. It would be one hell of a challenge for me to figure out how to code it, but I at least need to figure out the theory first, then I'll try to figure out how to code it.
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K Jane wrote:
"How can I get InDesign to reference the existing Paragraph Style Panel Menu?"
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graphicsoc wrote:
Hello,
I used FIND/CHANGE to apply my paragraph style and when I apply the paragraph style... it applies the style to the entire line.
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Styles in Help or Google searches.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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