Preserve Bold & Italics while cut paste

Question

hi,
I am trying to cut some text and paste into another location through scripting.  While pasting it,does'nt preserves the bold and
italic. All the text fall as a normal text only. Anybody tell me how to preserve the overrides(Bold and Italics) while pasting.
Thanks
Ranjan

Answer 1

@Ranjan – instead of "cut" and "paste" you could use the move() method of the texts object of your source text frame or your selection, if text ist selected.
See screenshot:
See my snippet with annotations:
//In InDesign CS5.5 you can use the click order in the UI to determine
//what selected object is [0] and [1] etc.
//if you select two objects, [0] is the first one, [1] the second one.
//So to move formatted text from the left to the right text frame
//first click on the left text frame, hold shift and click on the right one
//before executing this code:
var sel = app.selection;
sel[0].texts[0].move(LocationOptions.AFTER,sel[1].insertionPoints[0]);
More generally spoken:
sourceTextFrame.texts[0].move(LocationOptions.AFTER,targetTextFrame.insertionPoints[0]);
You could also move selected text to another insertionPoint:
app.selection[0].texts[0].move(LocationOptions.AFTER,targetTextFrame.insertionPoints[0]);
Uwe