Basic Character styles (bold, italic and underline)įor InDesign CS4 and CS5, this script to “literally” apply character styles to Nested, GREP, & Line styles, otherwise this formatting is ignored on export.

The following styles can be created automatically If you haven’t checked out the free trial yet, you really should.Ĭreates styles based on local formatting and applies to text or objects.

If you need more oomph, PowerStyles does the same intelligent creation/application of character styles to locally formatted text as PerfectPrepText, plus it has many other useful text styling features. This is a plug-in from David Blatner and DTP Tools that costs $59. PerfectPrepText.jsx deconstructs the story temporarily first removing (he calls it “neutralizing”) the paragraph styles, then runs preptext.jsx (you need to have the preptext.jsx script at the same level as Peter’s somewhere in your InDesign scripts folder), then reasserts the original paragraph styles. The script requires PrepText.jsx (CS4+) at the same level. One of the most popular free scripts for InDesign, preptext.jsx, was written by our own InDesignSecrets contributor Theunis DeJong, aka “Jongware.” Preptext.jsx applies character styles to text with local formatting (bolds, italics, superscripts, and a few others) so you can retain the formatting when you apply your own paragraph styles or when you export to EPUB. The problem is that preptext.jsx sometimes does too good of a job, creating and applying character styles to every instance of bold (or italic, or all-small caps, etc.) text, even if it’s not locally formatted that is, even if the formatting is part of the paragraph style applied to the text. The script simply toggles between the normal view mode and our special “display style overrides” mode for CS4+ to spot-check a story with visual markup for local overrides. The Document Object Model of the InDesign CS4 scripting layer provides an obscure property, TextPreference.enableStylePreviewMode, which allows to show “style overrides” as red strikeouts or paragraph vertical bars in normal screen mode (as illustrated above). InDesign Scripts ShowHideLocalFormatting.jsx The links below will take you to a Webpage where you can read about the script and what it does and where you can download the script file. EST) one of them, Kris Coppieters’s script for converting InDesign page item geometry into CSS information, was mentioned again, so I figured it would be a good time to share more of them. At PePcon 2012, Anne-Marie Concepcion led a session on “Top Scripts and Resources for EPUB.” In #ePrdctn Hour on Twitter June 13 (it happens every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.

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