turn hyphenation on by script

Jens H. Petersen

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    • July 14, 2018 at 6:40 am #104917
      Jens H. Petersen
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      I have a 1700 pages indesign layout with two language layers based on the same style. The style has hyphenation on but now I have to turn hyphenation off in all text IN ONLY ONE LAYER. This script:

      app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().hyphenation=false;

      does the trick, but for all text in the book (both layers). Is there a way to confine the trick to work only on text in the layer “UKtext”?

      Jens

    • July 16, 2018 at 3:36 am #104930
      Kai Rübsamen
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      You can try this, but note, it will cause overrides and if you have storys with linked frames over multiple layers, it will turn the hyphenation off on other layers too.

      var s = app.activeDocument.layers.itemByName("layer name").textFrames.everyItem().parentStory;

for (var i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
  s[i].hyphenation = false;
}

      So I would vote for a new style with correct language and maybe hyphenation turned on?!

      Kai

    • July 16, 2018 at 3:44 am #104931
      Jens H. Petersen
      Member

      It worked! Super and thanks! This saved me for going into more than 3000 text boxes to change the setting :-)

      Jens

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