Script to Convert Attributes to Character Styles

I'm trying to expand on Peter Kahrel's PerfectPrepText.jsx (which uses Jongware's preptext.jsx) to convert italic, bold, bold italic, superscript, subscript, and underscore to character styles prior to exporting files for EPub. It works perfectly with fonts whose variations actually ARE "italic", "bold", and "bold italic", but I can't figure out what to insert to have it also recognize fonts that use "oblique" instead of "italic" as well as fonts that have numbered variations (55 Roman, 56 Italic, etc.).
Any ideas?

Does this help:
http://www.id-extras.com/products/auto-character-styles
There is a demo for download.

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Converting local character styles (overrides) to proper styles

Hi all,
I've been handed a document that has no styles defined at all. All styling is done the local character styles ("overrides").
This tutorial http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/160-Convert-local-formatting-character-styles/8532 4/192449-4.html shows how to do a preflight, that detects all of the overrides, which is great, but you still have to manually fix them.
The fastest way I've found so far is to do a search for a particular font-size/font-type, and then apply a proper character style to each match, until the overrides are all gone. But maybe there's a faster way? E.g. is it possible to "select all matching text" (as you can do in Google Docs), that would select all text matching that font-size/type, and then with one click apply a style to all selected text?
Or maybe there's another way to convert all text matching e.g. font-size/font-type into a character style?
Thanks!
Bjoern

The auto-char styles script tries to be semi-intelligent: It ignores the underlying paragraph style completely. Instead, for each paragraph, it checks which is the longest continuous run of formatting in that paragraph (textStyleRange). That formatting is considered the "underlying formatting of the paragraph", and any other formatting in that paragraph is considered an override, and has an appropriate character created (if necessary) and applied to it.
The only exception to that is "italics", which is always considered an override, even there is more italics than regular in the paragraph (something that can happen in a bibliography entry, for instance).
So, for instance, with the formatting you give as an example ("No style, + Arial Bold + size: 24 + Leading 28"), where everything but the final paragraph return has that applied, Auto-Char Styles will not apply a character style to most of the text, and apply an appropriate char style to the final enter only.
That way, "all" that remains is to go through the document creating and applying paragraph styles as necessary, knowing that all local overrides have been styled with an appropriate char style.

Para/Character Style Name show by script

Hi,
Every one (Specially John Hawkinson) Sir i have one more question. Question is that my InDesign CS4 Sample file lots of character style (Nested Style) on my single paragraph style. Is this any script (Java/Apple) show Paragraph/Character style name show where these style apply.
(1) This is paragraph style
(2) First character style on (paragraph style)
(3) Sec/Third character style on (paragraph style)
After run script
thank you
regard
snegig

Well, this one is not easy.
There is not a good way for scripts to add display adornments that are not objects in your document. That's possible with plugins, but not really with scripts.
But a script could add arrows and boxes and soforth to your document, such as on another layer.
So yes, it's possible for you to have a script walk through your document and call out style names. It sounds like it would be a pain. I don't know of an existing script that does this, but perhaps someone else does. (I'm only answering since you asked me explicitly...)
Sorry, good luck.

[CS3 JS] Correcting a Character Style Anomaly

It used to be that you could define a character style to merely colour the text and give it an underline (e.g. for Hyperlinks) or just superscript the text (for Reference citations). When such styles, which do not call for a particular font or font size, are placed into InDesign CS, the styled text would take on the font and font size of the underlying paragraph style. However, after placing a Word .doc with these styles into a CS2 template, the font and font size becomes Times New Roman and 10 pt. The solution was to save an .rtf file and re-import the text. Now, in CS3 this work-around doesnt quite work: the font is okay, but the font size reverts to that default size of 10 pt.
So, I would like a script that finds all occurrences of two specific character styles (Hyperlink and bibref) and then corrects the font size of the found text to that of the underlying paragraph style. These styles can appear anywhere within a document, including in tables. I have trawled through this forum and found enough to be able to search for the character styles, but I cannot fathom how to apply the font size of the underlying paragraph style. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
By the way, re-applying the character styles doesnt work because the character styles dont define the font size; also clearing the overrides on the paragraph style while the text is selected isnt a viable solution, because other local formatting (i.e. italic) would be lost.

Hi Peter
Thank you very much for your quick response. I tried your script and it did as you intended by clearing the Font, Font Style and Point Size in the character style, but unfortunately it did not correct the problem of the style becoming some default style and size (Times New Roman 10 pt) when placed into ID.
In fact, I had already set up the 'bibref' and 'Hyperlink' character styles with these fields blanked out. Also, I made Adobe aware of this bug when CS2 came out and they warned me that CS3 wouldn't fix the problem; but I didn't realize that CS3 would be worse than CS2 so that using an rtf file wouldn't fix things.
So, I am left with my initial query: is it possible to write a script to search for the character styles in question and apply the font size of the underlying paragraph style?
Thanks a lot for any help you can give.

Script needed to generate a list of paragraph and character styles from the Book Level

Hello,
I am using FrameMaker 11 in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 and I need to find a script that will generate a list
of paragraph and character styles from the book level.
I am working with unstructured FrameMaker books, but will soon be looking at getting a conversion table developed
that will allow me to migrate all my data over to Dita (1.1 for now).
Any thoughts, ideas on this is very much appreciated.
Regards,
Jim

Hi Jim,
I think the problem you are having with getting a response is that you are asking someone to write a script for you. Normally, you would have to pay someone for this, as it is something that folks do for a living.
Nonetheless, I had a few minutes to spare, so I worked up the following script that I believe does the job. It is very slow, clunky, and totally non-elegant, but I think it works. It leverages the book error log mechanism which is built in and accessible by scripts, but is spendidly unattractive. I hope this gives you a starting point. It could be made much more beautiful, of course, but such would take lots more time.
Russ
ListAllFormatsInBook()
function ListAllFormatsInBook()
    var doc, path, fmt;
    var book = app.ActiveBook;
    if(!book.ObjectValid()) book = app.FirstOpenBook;
    if(!book.ObjectValid())
        alert("No book window is active. Cannot continue.");
        return;
    CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
    CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "** Book format report for:");
    CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, book.Name);
    var comp = book.FirstComponentInBook;
    while(comp.ObjectValid())
        path = comp.Name;
        doc = SimpleOpen (path, false);
        if(doc.ObjectValid())
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, doc, 0, "");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "Paragraph formats:");
            fmt = doc.FirstPgfFmtInDoc;
            while(fmt.ObjectValid())
                CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, " - " + fmt.Name);
                fmt = fmt.NextPgfFmtInDoc;
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "Character formats:");
            fmt = doc.FirstCharFmtInDoc;
            while(fmt.ObjectValid())
                CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, " - " + fmt.Name);
                fmt = fmt.NextCharFmtInDoc;
        else
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "!!! Could not open: " + comp.Name + " !!!");
            CallErrorLog(book, 0, 0, "-----------------------------------------------------------");
        comp = comp.NextComponentInBook;
function CallErrorLog(book, doc, object, text)
    var arg;
    arg = "log ";
    if(book == null || book == 0 || !book.ObjectValid())
        arg += "-b=0 ";
    else arg += "-b=" + book.id + " ";
    if(doc == null || doc == 0 || !doc.ObjectValid())
        arg += "-d=0 ";
    else arg += "-d=" + doc.id + " ";
    if(object == null || object == 0 || !object.ObjectValid())
        arg += "-O=0 ";
    else arg += "-O=" + object.id + " ";
    arg += "--" + text;
    CallClient("BookErrorLog", arg);

Need script to place line break based on character style

I'm a designer and know very little about scripting or XML, but here goes. I have some XML files I'm formatting for print, and they don't have paragraph returns where they need to be. The returns always need to be before a specific XML tag (that I can change to a specific character style to make it easier to find...). But I don't see a way to do this using the usual InDesign Find/Replace tools, so I assume scripting is going to be the answer. Anyone know how to accomplish this?
Here's an example of the content I'm working with. The breaks need to happen BEFORE each <City> element. I'm using InDesign CS6 on a Mac.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Regions><Region>
BIG BEND COUNTRY<City>
<City_Name>ALPINE
</City_Name><Event_Name>
Big Bend Ranch Rodeo                                                                                </Event_Name>
<Date>August 8-9
</Date><Venue_Name>
Sul Ross State University S.A.L.E. Arena</Venue_Name>
<Website1>www.bigbendranchrodeo.com
</Website1><Phone1>
4323642696</Phone1>
<Phone2></Phone2>
</City><City>
<City_Name>ALPINE
</City_Name><Event_Name>
Big Bend Balloon Bash                                                                               </Event_Name>
<Date>August 30-September 1
</Date><Venue_Name>
Alpine-Casparis Municipal Airport</Venue_Name>
<Website1>bigbendballoonbash.com
</Website1><Phone1>
4328377486</Phone1>
<Phone2></Phone2>
</City><City>
<City_Name>EL PASO
</City_Name><Event_Name>
Alfresco! Fridays                                                                                   </Event_Name>
<Date>August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
</Date><Venue_Name>
Convention Center Plaza</Venue_Name>
<Website1>www.alfrescofridays.com
</Website1><Phone1>
915/534-0600</Phone1>
<Phone2/></City>
Thanks in advance!

karol wrote:
You can use [ code ] tags when pasting code https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
For it to really auto-update the mirrorlist it has to be put in a cronjob :-)
If I run it twice, will the original mirrorlist (moved to mirrorlist.bak after the first run) be irrevocably lost?
Just nitpicking: you don't have to use 'g' for global changes in the sed substitutions as there is only one occurrence per line.
Thanks Karol - I made the adjustments above to address both comments. The 'g' for sed I think is OK to leave in :-)
Last edited by Archieman (2011-05-31 04:00:55)

How to write script to apply character style?

Hi,
I'm on a Macbook pro and without a number pad so I can't assign a shortcut for the character styles. I did hear of a roundabout solution where you can assign a shortcut to a script which applies the character styles. Can anyone write this script?
My character style is called 'Features bold'.
I'm new to scripting, sorry if this is a dumb question.
Cheers

Hi,
1. Save this code as .jsx file inside your Script Panel folder
2. Apply a shortcut using Edit:Keyboard shortcuts... menu
Option to choose:
suggest to choose an option "context": "Text", so you can use more shortcuts which are busy with other contexts.
#target indesign
if (app.selection && app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty ("baselineShift") ) {
var cName = "Features bold";
var mCstyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(cName);
if (mCstyle.isValid)
app.selection[0].applyCharacterStyle(mCstyle);
else
alert ("CharStyle: " + cName + " not found");
else
alert ("Some text supposed to be selected...");
Jarek

Converting Character Styles

In my FrameMaker files, I have several graphics that contain callouts, and I have assigned a Character Style to the callouts. When I created RoboHelp files from the FrameMaker files, the callouts are visible in the graphics but they did not retain the Character Style I created in FM (the callouts appear as plain text in RH). I can edit the Character Style in the RH style sheet, but the appearance of the callouts do not change. I also noticed that in RH, the callouts appear to be embedded in the graphic and therefore I am unable to select them as text. Is there a setting I need to apply when I link the FM files to RH so the callouts are not embedded in the graphics, so that I can apply a character style?

I have moved this post to the correct forum. The original link will still work.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

URGENT: Paragraph/Character style help (doing massive amounts manually)

I'm using CS3 at work but if it's magically easier, i may have access to cs4 (less likely but possible). It's a long post but I wanted to be in depth with my problem which at its core is simple. I have included a 2-page spread example in pdf.
What I greatly need help with is your opinion of how I can set this up to speed up the process, unify the document, and make future edits simple instead of crazy difficult. Can I configure a paragraph style to NOT replace font style? Can that style include my preset tabs (for bullets) which list as follows?:
number, small letter, roman numeral, bullet
Let me start by saying I SCOUR the net and all available options before posting. I'm cleaning up/editing a production manual for a portrait company I work for and am new to indesign but have figured many things out. I'm quite proficient with the Adobe Suite and computers. I'm using last year's indesign file and it was done very poorly. The words are right, the lines are right, the tabs are terrible and i've needed to move many pages out of order and add plenty. I also chose to disable 1 text box that flows from page to page (i see now it's helpful but they had made it impossible for me to use the existing one and I didn't have time to redo). The pictures I can add and manipulate freely but an embedded text-wrapped version would be nice as well (less important by far).
The manual is spiral bound with text on the right page and a notes page on the left for the layout. (flipped open the left side is lines for notes and the right side is operations). It's set up with a Header at the top (in some cases a sub header almost identical right below it), a space or two, then an outline format IE:
1)     Open job
          a) Go into G:\Location
          b) Select job code
               i) *Note: Be sure to select the right one (etc)..
2)      Continue
                                   |                                                    |
                                   |                                                    |
                                   |                    Picture                      |
                                   |                                                    |
                                   |______________________________|
Page size is 8.5x11 with a .5 safe print border all around (document is 11x17). The Document is about 100 pages of written directions (so double that for indesign pages). It will be printed on a Xerox IGen3. The whole book give or take is set up like that. Thus, a few paragraph and character styles are in order. I've been editing/cleaning up each page re-tabbing, re-laying out. It's hell and must be done in 2 days.
I'm using Myriad Pro universally as the font. The sizes are as follows:
Header: 16 bold center
Sub (if applicable): 15 bold center
Body: 12 point
I've gotten paragraph styles to work sort of. I tried setting up numbering and bulleting but it's been giving me so much grief that I typed those all by hand or have just adjusted existing ones (I don't have much time currently, BUT need to learn for future updates and to convert it to styles). I know styles are the way to go with a couple master pages involving bulleting and character styles... however I could not become an expert overnight unfortunately; i tried =)
The real killer for paragraph styles have been:
- The portions of the directions that pertain to specific menu options or clicks are in bold, occasional important info is red. Normal text including numbers/bullets are normal. There are many words repeated that need bold so perhaps some kind of search/replace script could help however im not positive.
- When I go to apply a paragraph style it must make all type bold or not bold. It doesn't replace the color of the text which is good.
- Having major trouble with bullets/numbers working the way i'd like.

It is unfortunate you only have two days, but you could play around with these suggestions below and see if they help more than they hender... (NOTE: SAVE A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU START MONKEYING AROUND IN CASE YOU HATE THE RESULTS!)
For starters, you could certainly do the lists via stylesheet. It would require 3 lists based on your sample. Base list 2 and 3 on list 1 or all 3 on a default List paragraph style, so that you can globally control your list formatting without having to change all 3 each time you want to apply a tweak.
List 1 would be leve 1, 1,2,3 style with indents like 3p, -1.5, 3p. Align right and don't restart numbers. If you want bold numbers, make a bold character style called List# and apply it.
List 2 would be level 2, a,b,c style with indents like 4p, -1p, 4p. Restart on level change.
List 3 would be level 3, i,ii,iii style with indents like 6.5p, -1.5p, 6.5p. Restart on level change.
Tweak as necessary to match your actual text.
Then just do a global GREP search and replace, replacing out the manual list numbers with real styles.
List 1 replace ^\t[0-9]+\t with ~- (discretionary hyphen is a nice invisible character that won't break anything) and paragraph style of list1.
List 2 replace ^\t\t[a-z].\t with ~- and paragraph style list2.
List 3 replace ^\t\t\t[ivx].\t with ~- and paragraph style list3.
The last step of list replacement would be to manually restart numbering for each new list.
As for the keywords, unless you have a complete list of what will be bold and it will always be bold, just manually style them with character styles.
Make a character style called "Keyword" and apply bold to the formatting.
Make a character style called "Keyword Important" and apply bold and red formatting.
If you know certain words are always, always the same and you have CS4, you could create a GREP style that applied Keyword character style to any words that matched.
For example, if the keywords Left, Right, Top, Bottom always were bolded at the beginning of the paragraph, you could add the GREP style that applied Keyword to ^(Top|Bottom|Left|Right).
In all likelihood you will be applying a lot of manual keywords too though, so make sure you put a keyboard shortcut on (like cmd-opt-1, 2, etc) on the Keyword and Keyword Important character styles. That way you can just fire through selecting text and whacking cmd-opt-1 where appropriate.

Create XML Element Tag BasedOn Found Character Style

Hi,
Good Day!
Basically I want to search only for character styles that contains "ntb-", that is why it is hard coded in my searchString variable.
Although I was able to create XML tag based on selected character style, but it will always add/insert at the end of the parent XML element.
Can anyone could help me how insert/add that element at the insertion point where the text is found?
Thanks,
--elmer
var myDoc = app.documents[0];
myDoc.viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
myDoc.viewPreferences.verticalMeasurementUnits = MeasurementUnits.POINTS;
var charStyles = myDoc.allCharacterStyles;
var foundStyles = Array();
var searchString = String();
    searchString = 'ntb-';
var tempName = String();
var tempName1 = String();
for(var i = 1; charStyles.length > i; i++){
   tempName = charStyles[i].name;
   tempName1 = tempName.toLowerCase();
   if(tempName1.indexOf (searchString.toLowerCase()) != -1){
       foundStyles.push (tempName);
var myDialog = app.dialogs.add({name: "Convert Footnote Character Styles to XML Tags",canCancel:true});
with (myDialog) {
    with (dialogColumns.add().borderPanels.add()) {
        with (dialogColumns.add()) {
            staticTexts.add({staticLabel: "Character style to search : "});        }
        with (dialogColumns.add()) {
            selCharStyle = dropdowns.add({stringList: foundStyles, selectedIndex: 0, minWidth: 175});
var dialogShown = myDialog.show();
while (dialogShown) {
    if (selCharStyle.selectedIndex == 0) {
        alert("Must have at least a character style to search!");
        dialogShown = myDialog.show();
        continue;
    } else {
        insertXMLTags(selCharStyle.stringList[selCharStyle.selectedIndex], selCharStyle.selectedIndex, "0");
        break;
myDialog.destroy();
alert("Finished!");
exit();
function insertXMLTags(cStyle, cStyleIndex, ip) {
    var myFinds = searchStyle(cStyle, cStyleIndex);
    for (i=myFinds.length - 1; i>=0; i--) {
        var myIP = myFinds[i].texts.item(0).insertionPoints.item(0);
        var myParentXML = myIP.associatedXMLElements[0];
        var myChiidXML = myParentXML.xmlElements.add ( cStyle );
        myChiidXML.contents = myFinds[i].contents;
        //set the selection
        app.selection = myFinds[i].texts.item(0);
        //remove the selected text
        myFinds[i].texts.item(0).remove();
        Utility Functions
function searchStyle(cStyle, cStyleIndex){
    var myFinds;
    // if script version is for Indesign CS2
    if (app.scriptPreferences.version < 5){
        app.findPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
        app.changePreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
        myFinds = myDoc.search(undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined,
        {appliedParagraphStyle: pStyle, appliedCharacterStyle: cStyle});
    // else, for CS3 and CS4
    }else{
        //Clear any existing find/change settings
        app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
        app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
        // set character or paragraph style to search
        if (cStyleIndex != 0){
            app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = cStyle;
        //Set the find options.
        app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
        app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
        app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
        myFinds = myDoc.findText();
    return myFinds;

Here is a way you can find any field.
Download the current template.
Open it in word and go to the line that you are interested in.
The blanket PO# will be a field. Right click on it and go to properties. You will see the xml element there.
Hope this answers your question,
Sandeep Gandhi

Map Paragraph and Character Styles

Hello all,
I am trying to import Word documents based on the Word Import Preset documents.
Here's an example smp document
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Sangam-Import-Preset reader-type="Word/RTF">
    
    <Style-Mappings>
        <Paragraph-Style-Mappings>
            <Mapping style-name="Body Text" mapped-to="Body 2" />
            <Mapping style-name="Heading 1" mapped-to="Heading 1" />
            <Mapping style-name="Normal" mapped-to="Normal 2" />
        </Paragraph-Style-Mappings>
        <Character-Style-Mappings>
            <Mapping style-name="Hyperlink" mapped-to="Hyp" />
        </Character-Style-Mappings>
    </Style-Mappings>
    
    <Import-Preferences>
        <Preference name="import-toc" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-index" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-hyperlink" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-tables" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-footnotes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-endnotes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-track-changes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-preserve-graphics" value="1" />
        <Preference name="spacing" value="1" />
        <Preference name="break-before-para" value="0" />
        <Preference name="use-typographers-quotes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="convert-tables-to" value="0" />
        <Preference name="remove-formatting" value="0" />
        <Preference name="dont-strip-char-formatting" value="0" />
        <Preference name="bring-unused-styles" value="0" />
        <Preference name="para-style-clash-option" value="0" />
        <Preference name="char-style-clash-option" value="0" />
        <Preference name="use-style-mappings" value="1" />
        <Preference name="convert-BN-to-text" value="0" />
    </Import-Preferences>
</Sangam-Import-Preset>
Everything should be easy to set in the WordRTFImportPreference except for the mappings.
I tried using app.activeDocument. paraStyleMappings.add("Normal","Normal 2",   MapType.STYLE_MAPPING_RULE) after setting app.generalPreferences.mapStylesOnContentPlace = true
Doesn't work . I suspect the mappings are only good for XML placements and not Word ones, in which case I guess the way to do it would be to us changeText() on the styles. This is not a great solution as the changes would be done after placement unlike when using the UI before the placement.
Has anyone done this or got any ideas?
Regards,
Trevor

Paragraph Tools from SiliconPrairieSoftware.com will do it and it's cheap.
Note that you may not want to convert H1 to Heading1, but convert in the
opposite direction. A lot of expert Framers use the keyboard to choose
paragraph tags instead of the mouse-- it's faster-- and have set up short
names for paragraph formats to make that go even faster. (Someone who uses
the technique can explain it better than I.) If you have members of your
team who use this method, changing to the longer tagname may slow them down
and bring down a hail of grumbles.

[JS InDesign CS3] Style groups, begone! (or: How do I take paragraph and character styles out of style groups?)

Sorry for this question (and my terrible English, by the way), I'm a javascript noob and I know when I've reached my limits.
Well, I'm trying to take a set of paragraph and character styles out of the style groups they are placed in, in hundreds of InDesign documents (that cannot be treated as a book). As far as I've tried (thanks to the invaluable help of previous posts in this forum) I've been able to move a style into a group and change it's position inside the group, inside the root level or even between groups. But it doesn't matter how I try, I don't know which move reference should I try in case I want to take every style out of their style group and place them after their original group folder, at the [Root] style level .
I have tried:
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var pGroups=doc.paragraphStyleGroups;
for (i=pGroups.length-1; i>=0; i--){
     var pStylesInGroup=pGroups[i].paragraphStyles;
     for (j=pStylesInGroup.length-1; j>=0; j--){
// Here I am, trying to move a style outside the folder that contains it, and failing miserably.
          pStylesInGroup[j].move (LocationOptions.after, pGroups[i]);
It didn't work, the script sent an invalid parameter value in the reference field, so I cant use the group folder itself as reference.
Tried other (obviously wrong) solutions, like use the first available style as reference. Therefore, my second script was
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var pStyles=doc.allParagraphStyles;
var pGroups=doc.paragraphStyleGroups;
for (i=pGroups.length-1; i>=0; i--){
     var pStylesInGroup=pGroups[i].paragraphStyles;
     for (j=pStylesInGroup.length-1; j>=0; j--){
// Now I try placing the styles after the [Basic Paragraph], that is, the second paragraph style in the document style list
          pStylesInGroup[j].move (LocationOptions.after, pStyles[1]);
It didn't work either, another invalid parameter in the reference field. Similar results with my other attempts (I even tried "[Root]" as literal with similar luck).
So, my question is: Which command (or script, in case my whole approach is utterly wrong) should I use to achieve my goal?
Thanks in advance to whoever decides to spend more than a minute thinking about my humble worries, and my apologies for shamelessly ripping some of your lines of code for my purposes.

Okay, tried a few things and got really weird results!
1. You can move a style around inside its group.
2. You can move a style out of a group "to" another, but it will appear 'inside' that style. I got my test style as a sub-item of [Basic Paragraph], using index #1. With index #0 ([No Paragraph Style]) InDesign crashed.
3. You can duplicate the style, but then you get a copy in the same group. Still no luck.
4. Finally! What is the parent of a paragraph style?
Document | Application | ParagraphStyleGroup
"Application" is easy -- that's when you make a style global. So what's the difference between 'Document' and 'paragraphStyleGroup'? Simple -- well, when you finally get it...
pStylesInGroup[j].move (LocationOptions.AT_END, doc);
moves the style out of the group and to the end of the list in the document. I don't think it's possible to move it directly to a specific position into the main style list -- you first have to move it out of a group, then move it around in its own list.
Fortunately, it returns its new position as a ParagraphStyle again, so if needed, you can use
newStyle = pStylesInGroup[j].move (LocationOptions.AT_END, doc);
newStyle.move (LocationOptions.AFTER, pStyles[1]);
-- I didn't really try that out, but it should work.

Why is the character style for hyperlinks not displaying correctly in design mode/viewing/output?

I am using RH9 and generating WebHelp, and I needed to globally bump up the font size of just my hyperlinked text. I went into my Style Sheet > Character tab, changed the font size of the various character settings for hyperlinks, and clicked Apply and then OK. Normally, this would change all of my hyperlink text font sizes immediately across all of my topics. However, this time, it made no changes to any existing hyperlinked text, and it only affected new hyperlinks that I subsequently added. For the existing hyperlinks, I can only manually change the font size of the each hyperlink one at a time, but that's crazy (there's 100's in this help).
I can successfully change other characters styles and paragraph styles. This issue only affects the hyperlink character styles. It also shows up in all RH modes - Design mode, viewing, and in the final output.
Is this an indication of a corrupted style sheet or some other combination of events that I have yet to discover?

Hi,
You probably have inline styling in your project overwriting the font size of your style sheet. How are you changing the font size of the individual hyperlinks?
There is a workaround for inline styling: Open your CSS in notepad and add !important after the font-size:
font-size: 4pt !important;
Note that this is a workaround, not a solution. As a solutions you can remove all the style attributes from your hyperlinks to force them to take the CSS styling again.
Greet,
Willam

Character Styles in CSS Properties Panel are not correct

I am using Adobe Illustator CC.
I am trying to export all of the charter styles as CSS. However the CSS panel is not generating the correct style.
Right now, in the Character Styles Panel and CSS Properties Panel I have 3 styles (Default, h1, h2)
This is how they are defined in the Character Styles Panel:
1. [Normal Character Style]:Helvectic Neue LT Std, 55 Roman, 16px
2. h1: Helvectic Neue LT Std, 25 Ultra Light, 35px
3. h2: Helvectic Neue LT Std, 45 Light, 18px
HOWEVER
When I go to the CSS Properties panel the code is not showing the Font Style:
This is how they are defined in the CSS Properties Panel:
1. [Normal Character Style]:
.NormalCharacterStyle
font-family : Helvetica Neue LT Std;
font-size : 16px;
color : #19131F;
color : rgb(25, 19, 31);
2. h1:
.h1
font-family : Helvetica Neue LT Std;
font-size : 35px;
letter-spacing : 0.53px;
color : #FFFFFF;
color : rgb(255, 255, 255);
Missing: 25 Ultra Light
3. h2:
.h2
font-family : Helvetica Neue LT Std;
font-size : 18px;
text-transform : uppercase;
color : #FCFCFC;
color : rgb(252, 252, 252);
Missing: 45 Light
Am I not doing somethign correctly? Is it a problem with my font or with Illustrator?
Also, in case it makes a difference, I only have the default paragraph style defined. It's style is; Helvectic Neue LT Std, 55 Roman
Thanks!

CSS cannot render typographical multiple weight fonts simply because that's just not how it works. All CSS does is reference a physical font file and its properties and while it's possible to use the font-weight and font-style attributes to make standard fonts lighter or bolder it does not compare to anything you would do with the font in a real design environment. That and of course you still need to define fallback/ substitution options - the Helvetica Neue you are referencing is exclusively available on Apple systems only and even if what you are trying worked off the bat, it would be useless on alternate devices that have no access to the font.
Mylenium

Having a problem with character styles in indesign

I'm having another problem with my style sheets in indesign, I've now got an awful lot of styles in paragraph and character styles. I've created different styles for paragraph justified text and when I go to my style in paragraph styles to use tight text copy, character styles always overides it so it means I have to do whole lot of extra formatting just to put it right. Does anyone have an idea how I can stop character styles overiding paragraph styles? Thanks very much.

Perhaps your character styles apply more than you actually want? I.e., rather than just "+Italic" it also applies custom tracking. You should use character styles only to override the stuff you really want to change.
You can check by calling up the definition for those character styles; the huge "Style Settings" text box lists all the attributes it changes.

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