Need a scripting guide

Question

We have a couple of InDesign CS4 files with us. We need to genereate a report as follows:
1. Need to take used paragraph and character styles as chapterwise. Do not take entire style available in the document.
2. Also required the corresponding font name and font style that appear next to the style.
for e.g. the report (.csv format) shows as illustrated below.
Used style information
File name
Paragraph styles
Font Family
Font Style
Character styles
Font Family
Font Style
Chapter 1.indd
para
Times
Roman
inside
Times
Bold
para1
Times
Roman
inside1
Times
Italic
para2
Times
Roman
inside2
Times
Bold
para3
Times
Roman
inside3
Times
Bold Italic
para4
Times Ten
Roman
inside4
Times Ten
Bold
para5
Times Ten
Roman
inside5
Times Ten
Bold Italic
para6
Times Ten
Roman
inside6
Times Ten
Italic
para7
Helvetica
Regular
inside7
Helvetica
Bold
para8
Helvetica
Regular
inside8
Helvetica
Bold Italic
Chapter 2.indd
para
Times
Roman
inside
Times
Bold
para1
Times
Roman
inside1
Times
Italic
para2
Times
Roman
inside2
Times
Bold
para3
Times
Roman
inside3
Times
Bold Italic
para4
Times Ten
Roman
inside4
Times Ten
Bold
para5
Times Ten
Roman
inside5
Times Ten
Bold Italic
para6
Times Ten
Roman
inside6
Times Ten
Italic
para7
Helvetica
Regular
inside7
Helvetica
Bold
para8
Helvetica
Regular
inside8
Helvetica
Bold Italic
Any help much appreciated. . .
JA

Answer 1

Hi John,
      I worked out this as in .txt. It works fine. You use this codes and try with .csv.
Try this. Before that u've to create a empty text file in the desktop and copy the path to be saved...
var doc1 = app.documents[0];
var doc2 = app.documents[1];
//Paragraph Styles.......................................
var styles = doc1.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle;
var len=styles.length;
a=[];
for(var i=0;i<len;i++)
    a.push(styles[i].name);
//alert(a);
//Character Styles.........................................
var chrstyles=doc1.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedCharacterStyle;
var len1=chrstyles.length;
b=[];
for(var i=0;i<len1;i++)
    b.push(chrstyles[i].name);
var styles1 = doc2.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle;
var len1=styles1.length;
c=[];
for(var i=0;i<len1;i++)
    c.push(styles1[i].name);
//alert(a);
//Character Styles.........................................
var chrstyles1=doc2.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().appliedCharacterStyle;
var len2=chrstyles1.length;
d=[];
for(var i=0;i<len2;i++)
    d.push(chrstyles1[i].name);
//alert(b);
var filenew=File("C:/Documents and Settings/velprakashk/Desktop/vel.txt");       //The created empty text file path here...
var f = filenew.open("w");
var txt=filenew.read();
txt=doc1.name +"\r";
txt=txt+"ParagraphStyles:\r"
txt=txt +a + "\r";
txt=txt+"CharacterStyles:\r"
txt=txt + b + "\r";
txt=txt +doc2.name +"\r";
txt=txt+"ParagraphStyles:\r"
txt=txt +c + "\r";
txt=txt+"CharacterStyles:\r"
txt=txt + d + "\r";
alert(txt);
filenew.write(txt);
filenew.close();
Now the things is saved in the file in desktop...
With Regards,
Vel.