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daralim
daralim

Reputation: 183

How to choose a paragraph an change its style with InDesign script

I am parsing a XML document into InDesign and than trying to change every paragraph's style.

If I do it like this:

myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item(0).applyParagraphStyle(<<style>>);

it will change the whole text as it would be a single paragraph.

This code, however, won't work at all:

for (var i = 0; i < <<paragraphs.length>>; i++)
{
    if (styles[i].isValid)
        myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item(i).applyParagraphStyle(styles[i]);
}

Also it seems that I can't call the 'applyParagraphStyle' method on 'Paragraph' class.

My XML is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<root>
   <book>
      <authors>
         <author>Lee Roy</author>    
      </authors>
      <title>Name of the book</title>
      <subtitle>How to XML</subtitle>
   </book>
</root>

Then i parse them like this:

var string = "";
for (var i = 0; i < wholeXML.length(); i++)
{
    var book = wholeXML.child(i);

    string += book.child("title").toString() + "\r";
    string += book.child("subtitle").toString() + "\r";
}

The output would look like something like this:

Name of the book
How to XML

Now, my question is: How can I change a single paragraph's style?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1059

Answers (1)

mdomino
mdomino

Reputation: 1235

You can simply change the paragraph style of a single paragraph by setting its appliedParagraphStyle property.

myTextFrame.parentStory.paragraphs[0].appliedParagraphStyle = "nameOfParagraphStyle";

Upvotes: 1

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