Seeking Script to Turn Off All Ligatures and Hyphenations

Sean Carter

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- October 18, 2016 at 10:22 am #89115
  
  Sean Carter
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  So, I’m at a dead end. Quick background: we have a font that has ligatures which we want turned off and previous art directors were not diligent in turning off hyphenations or ligatures and as I have to reuse some of those files or archive old files I would LOVE to have an InDesign script to turn off all ligatures and hyphenations in the document (regardless if they are a part of a group or not.)
  
  I found this thread on Adobe:
  
  https://forums.adobe.com/message/1989783#access_token=eyJ4NXUiOiJpbXNfbmExLWtleS0xLmNlciIsImFsZyI6IlJTMjU2In0.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.ZY0vGyicN1llToy0dY78Bkoh89QWiu8oC1PEpE2OHysFHhvOL9txCUaowmRHSApLp0nQZrBVtPp9QCLzXUGmUyWozMnlg18DhKSWW19-9DXiA3v-9QZAEO8_GDiTQVP5I33N1_e_xkSUo5q2ncY869qebpXo2MCE-hYIBxSPqQl0t41hEGJcf3evgDzUQT9rl5cJ9dtJQlWgl8Y61qIlayf9Pe5eOv0ZhuE84xHJmiBvAl9wWl6yGw1Q6qZx1HkxMAxaEqIOPFogxXoRrqDk4DIlaVv95nfnOLqeGwLUjekR73GiR72fn2wiBg0uSHGkOG4O9bG-Td7WKjwvC7rfuQ&token_type=bearer&expires_in=86399974
  
  But, it’s from 2009 and so I don’t know if I’ll get a response as I have set a reply in there as well, but since the many talented folk in this forum have been very helpful for the past decade I thought I’d post in here as well.
  
  So, if anyone knows how to get that script to work or knows a script that will work, I’d appreciate some help. Thank you in advance.
- October 18, 2016 at 10:49 am #89116
  
  David Blatner
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  I’m assuming you’re not using paragraph and character styles? That would help a lot in this situation.
  You could also use the Find/Change dialog box to change those, no? (Not saying a script isn’t a good idea, but…)
- October 18, 2016 at 11:32 am #89119
  
  Sean Carter
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  Thanks David,
  
  Yeah most of our work doesn’t need styles and so we generally don’t waste our time with those (except for a different client for whom we do catalogues for and so it’s beneficial in that one.)
  
  I did find out elsewhere today in this search about the find/change and that was news to me. I never knew you could change styles and such with that feature.
- October 18, 2016 at 10:40 pm #89135
  
  Gert Verrept
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  as far as ligatures are concerned:
  var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
  var myParStyles = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;
  for (i = 1; i < myParStyles.length; i++) {
  myParStyles[i].ligatures = false;
  myParStyles[i].hyphenation = false;
  }
- October 19, 2016 at 11:50 am #89163
  
  Sean Carter
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  Thanks Gert, but that looks like the script that was referenced in my link — and it wasn’t working for me.
  
  There has been a reply in the original link I posted that is working just fine. For anyone else who might need it as well:
  
  Save the following as “Turn ligatures off.jsx”
  
  var scriptName = “Turn ligatures off”,
  doc;
  
  PreCheck();
  
  //===================================== FUNCTIONS ======================================
  function Main() {
  var allParStyles = doc.paragraphStyles;
  
  for (i = 1; i < allParStyles.length; i++) {
  allParStyles[i].ligatures = false;
  allParStyles[i].hyphenation = false;
  }
  }
  //——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
  function PreCheck() {
  if (app.documents.length == 0) ErrorExit(“Please open a document and try again.”, true);
  doc = app.activeDocument;
  if (doc.converted) ErrorExit(“The current document has been modified by being converted from older version of InDesign. Please save the document and try again.”, true);
  if (!doc.saved) ErrorExit(“The current document has not been saved since it was created. Please save the document and try again.”, true);
  Main();
  }
  //——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
  function ErrorExit(error, icon) {
  alert(error, scriptName, icon);
  exit();
  }
  //——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
- January 5, 2017 at 12:37 am #91009
  
  Annie Anderson
  Member
  
  Hi Sean Carter,
  
  Where do I save this script?
  I did save it here but it still have ligatures turned on when open indd. document.
  
  C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC 2015\Scripts\Scripts Panel\Samples\JavaScript
  
  Thanks in advance.
  
  Br Annie
- January 5, 2017 at 2:37 am #91010
  
  Gert Verrept
  Member
  
  Annie, you didn’t say if you have executed the script, did you? Save script with the extension .jsx in the above folder, open doc and execute the script by double clicking on it.
- January 5, 2017 at 6:50 am #91015
  
  Annie Anderson
  Member
  
  Hi Gert,
  
  Yes I did execute the .jsx script and when I open .indd document it still has ligatures on.
- January 5, 2017 at 10:01 am #91020
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  Here’s how to install scripts you found in a forum: https://creativepro.com/how-to-install-a-script-in-indesign-that-you-found-in-a-forum-or-blog-post.php
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