Script to make texts bold or italic

I saw someone suggested the following code to meet the need:
var app = new Illustrator.Application();
var doc = app.ActiveDocument;
var bold = doc.CharacterStyles["Bold"];
var italic = doc.CharacterStyles["Italics"];
var frame = doc.TextFrames[0];
bold.ApplyTo(frame);
italic.ApplyTo(frame);
But it does work in my case since "doc.CharacterStyles["Bold"];" and "doc.CharacterStyles["Italics"]" declare an error message of "No such element". Is there another way that I can try to make texts bold or italic?

look here
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/881071?tstart=0

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Script to make the text bold or italic

I saw someone suggested the following code to meet the need:
var app = new Illustrator.Application();
var doc = app.ActiveDocument;
var bold = doc.CharacterStyles["Bold"];
var italic = doc.CharacterStyles["Italics"];
var frame = doc.TextFrames[0];
bold.ApplyTo(frame);
italic.ApplyTo(frame);
But it does work in my case since "doc.CharacterStyles["Bold"];" and "doc.CharacterStyles["Italics"]" declare an error message of "No such element". Is there another way that I can try to make the text bold or italic?

look here
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/881071?tstart=0

Make text bold using javascript

To make it short and simple, here is what I need to do:
In my javascript, I have a long string of concatinations. I need to be able to make some of the words in the string bold, and others normal. I have tried the str.bold() method and that doesn't seem to be working for me. It simply displays bold tags around the word in the text field when I preview (
word). I have the text field as a 'rich text' as well as 'xhtml'.
Any advice on how to bold words using javascript would be great. I have looked through the forums and havn't found anything helpful so far.
I am using Livecycle 8.
Thanks in advance.

If you could give me an example, it would be great. I'm looking at the span object right now to see if it's something I could use.

Inserting PNG images in my document makes text bolder

I created a simple InDesign file using text and JPG images. So far all fine.
But on pages where I use PNG images instead of JPG images all text on the page is slightly bolder as if some sort of overprint would apply to all text boxes, even the once placed on the Master Page.
I checked all overprint settings, it's not it.
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That is indeed the problem.
Any ohter workaround than flattening the images in Photoshop?
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ralph

Mac Mail no longer allows me to make text bold

I'm using Lucida Grande as my default font, and since installing Snow Leopard the command>b no longer emboldens the type. Even if I go to format>style>bold it still doesn't work. Even if I go to format>show fonts and select the bold version of the font it still doesn't work.
Any ideas?

Hi chaps & chapettes
My system is running OS X 10.6.4 and Safari 5 (which is when the problems started) (and Mail 4.3)
I managed to sort this problem after tryin everything from:
*Font Book:*
- resolving duplicates
- validating fonts (and deleting all the warning & corrupted fonts)
*Linotype FontExplorer X*
- Clean system font caches
system/library/fonts
- manually deleting Helvetica and Helvetica Neue
The solution that worked for me was to select all fonts in the FontBook application, and click EDIT>SELECT DUPLICATE FONTS
Once selected, I simply disabled all of them... hey presto I can now, use shortcut keys for Bold and Italics in Mail.
Hope it helps
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BUG - in flash pro CC, 'bold' and 'italic' properties of TextFormat have no effect on rendered text

Concise problem statement:
If you compile with flash pro CC, and use the 'setTextFormat' method of a TextField, the 'bold' and 'italic' properties of the TextFormat argument have no effect on the rendered text. If you compile with flash pro CS6, the 'bold' and 'italic' properties work as expected.
Apparently, with flash pro CC, the only way to make the text render correctly is to change the font name (add the suffix ' Bold', ' Italic', or ' Bold Italic'.) This means code which dynamically changes font styles only works in CS6 or CC, but not both. For example, if you use the 'bold' property the text renders bold in CS6 and regular in CC, whereas if you change the font name to add the suffix ' Bold', the text renders bold in CC and DOES NOT RENDER at all in CS6. This makes it difficult to transition a team from CS6 to CC.
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Create an xfl with 2 TextFields on the stage, both with font "Trebuchet MS" and style "regular", one named boldTrueText containing the String "bold = true", one named fontNameText containing the String "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold". Create 2 more TextFields on the stage for visual reference, both with font "Trebuchet MS", one with style "regular", one with style "bold".
2. Add the following code to the Actions panel on frame 1:
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.Font;
var format:TextFormat = boldTrueText.getTextFormat();
format.bold = true;
boldTrueText.setTextFormat(format);
format = fontNameText.getTextFormat();
format.font = "Trebuchet MS Bold";
fontNameText.setTextFormat(format);
var fonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(), count:int = fonts.length;
for (var i:int = 0; i < count; i++) {
var font:Font = fonts[i];
trace("fontName: " + font.fontName + ", fontStyle: " + font.fontStyle);
3. Save, and compile with flash pro CS6 and flash pro CC.
Results:
With flash pro CS6, "bold = true" renders bold, and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" DOES NOT RENDER.
With flash pro CS6, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: bold
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
With flash pro CC, "bold = true" renders regular, and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" renders bold.
With flash pro CC, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
fontName: Trebuchet MS Bold, fontStyle: bold
Expected results:
The same text is rendered in both flash pro CS6 and CC. I don't know why this behavior was changed in flash pro CC - it causes silent failures in code which dynamically changes font styles. I expected the flash pro CS6 behavior to remain the same in CC, like so:
With flash pro CC, "bold = true" renders bold, and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" DOES NOT RENDER.
With flash pro CC, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: bold
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
If you don't want to break backward compatibility (any further), you could make both the behaviors work in flash pro CC, like so:
With flash pro CC, "bold = true" renders bold (font is still "Trebuchet MS"), and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" renders bold also.
With flash pro CC, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: bold
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
fontName: Trebuchet MS Bold, fontStyle: bold
I submitted this bug with the bug form, and also with adobe bugbase (in case it isn't obsolete) - I'm just trying to maximize my chances of getting a fix. Has anyone else encountered this bug?

I just can't believe how there is ZERO documenation for any of this. Flash's stylesheets have fontStyle and fontWeight properties, but they only recognize regular/italic and regular/bold respectively.
This change in Flash CC completely breaks systems built in Flash CS6, and the font naming is actually arbitrary and is not a consistant combination of font name and style (e.g. "Eras ITC" family's bold font name is "Eras Bold ITC", but the bold version of Times New Roman is "Times New Roman Bold" (with Bold at the end, rather than the middle), and what's absolutely appaling is that the font name used at runtime is not exposed anywhere in the Flash IDE!!! In the IDE you select a font family and font style independently, which is absolutely not what's used at runtime, because it actually uses a separate, arbitrarily named field in the font file for the font name. So we can't even know from within Flash what the proper runtime name is, unless we trace it out or open the font properties details tab in Windows explorer.
It seems that Flash CC is always using the font "Title" that can be found in the properties of the font, NOT the font name displayed in Windows Font Preview or in Flash CC. For example, the font name for Times New Roman Bold in Windows Font Preview is just "Times New Roman", but the font title in the properties/details tab is "Times New Roman Bold". If they made the change to allow for specific fonts to be selected, that's fine, but it completely breaks HTML support in TextFields if it's not respecting bold and italic tags.
This may actually be a trend on the web now, if you read this: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/02/14/setting-weights-and-styles-at-font-face-declara tion/ , it says: "If you’ve used one of FontSquirrel’s amazing @font-face kits, then you’re familiar with this approach to setting weights and styles. The CSS provided in every kit uses a unique font-family name for each weight and style, and sets the weight and style in the @font-face declaration to normal. [...] Notice that the font-family names are unique, with each font-family name accessing the appropriate Web font files."
But there's just no mention of this in any documentation I can find. What the hell.
It's also helpful to realize that font and u tags have been deprecated in HTML5, while b and i tags have been repurposed since they still retain semantic meaning apart from style: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags

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Is there a way I can make text that I append to a midlet Form bold or Italic? If so how?

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method.Atleast on a StringItem you can set font like this
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How do I make multiple text bold, for example scene headings or character names?

How do I make multiple text bold, for example scene headings or character names?

You can do that by editing the template of the document.
Open the document, go to Edit->Template. A dialog will launch which will have element types on the left and it's properties on the right.
Select Scene Heading(or Character name) on the left. On the right, go to 'Text' tab and click on Bold checkbox.
Press OK.
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Text appearing as Bold and Italic in CS4

Hi Guys
Whenever I create a new document and type into it the text is automatically 'bold' and 'italics', I have saved the page and opened on another computer running CS4 and the text is fine (not bold or italic). I have created a page on another computer and opened it on the troublesome one and again it is bold and italic ((
I cannot see anything in the preferences that may cause it, I have also discarded the configuration folder which contains the preferences for the program - no good either (( So as a last resort I have re-installed Dreamweaver and it is still playing up. I guess I can re-installs the complete CS4 suite but rather not as it is going to take a while and also may not fix the problem.
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Is possible to have a script that makes a text randomly have caps and lower caps... i would love to create a kind of effect so it would look like manuscript - but it cannot be only the same letter in caps or lower caps - I wOuld NeEd oF SOmeTHing LikE Thi

Is possible to have a script that makes a text randomly have caps and lower caps... i would love to create a kind of effect so it would look like manuscript - but it cannot be only the same letter in caps or lower caps - I wOuld NeEd oF SOmeTHing LikE This (random) - is it possibel?

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Bold text appears bold and italic

Hi Folks,
Can anyone please explain why this happens?
In FW when I click the bold text button, the text appears bold but italic aswell.
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That's unusual. Which version of Fireworks and what operating system are you using?
If you click on the Faux Italic button, is the italic styling removed? (It should be. If not, click twice.) You might want to try quitting and restarting the application—or shutting down and restarting your computer—and see if this takes care of the problem.
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I have a dynamic text field with the text "IMAGES". The font
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embedded. Now, I use Actionscript to change the text:
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rendered in bold and italic, and since I have bold+italic Latin
glyphs embedded, it should display properly. But what's clearly
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the text? This seems silly. I simply want my text field to be bold
and italic every time the text changes, and NO normal text!
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My Mail 6.6 Won't Apply Bold or Italic to text

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Make me Bold!

Hi everyone, first time in here..
Got this really annoying problem! Just made a text box scroll
thing, which is working fine. Only problem is that I need to make
some of the text bold in the external .txt file. I've been sticking
the text in <b>here</b> but for some reason it doesn't
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stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,
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Help Please

use the trace() function to see if your html-text is loading
correctly and make sure your textfield is html-enabled, though i
don't think that would cause the problem when assigning a htmlText
property.

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