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Re: Scripting InDesign for Fonts & Characters
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Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:18 +1100
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On 18/11/09 5:28 PM, "Chuck Pelto" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm trying to find an example of scripting InDesign to change specific
> characters in ASCII to be other characters in another font. However, InDesign
> seems to have no functionality for replacing text.

InDesign has multiple ways of replacing text: using a normal find/replace,
using grep find/replace, or using standard AS "set contents of every
character of every story whose...". Which you use depends on which version
and what exactly you want to change.

-- 
Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]>
AppleScript Pro, April 2010, Florida <http://www.applescriptpro.com>

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