If a font has more than one style, two levels of nested bookmarks are created one (parent) for the font family, another for font styles. The script creates bookmarks so it is a good idea to export the catalog to PDF format. In the same way, if I type in, say, ‘ F’, I’ll get only the fonts whose names begin with ‘ F’. By entering ‘ Franklin’ into the field, I can get them all in one go. (For InDesign, fonts in different families has nothing in common). I have ten such fonts installed: eight of them are located in four different families containing two styles, and a couple of standalone fonts. For example, I want to make samples for all ‘ Franklin’ fonts. In the bottom-most field, the user enters the beginning for the font names to be included. You can install the fonts in InDesign by creating a shortcut (alias) to it in the InDesign’s Fonts folder, like so: Tip: the folder with fonts can be located anywhere on a hard drive. You can limit the script to process only the fonts located in the selected folder and its subfolders. This feature may come in handy to you if you are going to export the font catalog to PDF or print it otherwise, only one restricted font will prevent you from exporting/printing the whole catalog resulting in an error message like so: In this section you can also choose to skip fonts that have licensing restrictions: To reference the exact name, use the following form:įont family + + hyphen + + Font style The spaces before and after font names in the list are ignored by the script You can enter only a part of the name starting from beginning: for instance, “Wingdings” will also have effect on “Wingdings 2” and “Wingdings 3” fonts. I added a list of such fonts to the default settings, but you’re free to edit it on your own discretion. In the Exclude fonts area you can enter font names separated by commas that you want to be skipped by the script. Also, I’d add a few Ukrainian characters because not all Cyrillic fonts contain them. In CS4 and below, the page won’t grow resulting in the text frame with overset text.)įor example, since I work for a magazine published in Ukrainian, I am interested only in Cyrillic fonts so I would add a short phrase in Ukrainian. (This feature is available in versions starting from CS5 and above. You can add as much text as you want - within a reasonable degree, of course - the page will grow vertically to fit the sample text. Note: to add a soft return (line feed) in InDesign, enter in the field. In the Sample text field, you can edit the sample text. Note: the first value in the array - 14 - is used for the above-mentioned info.įrom the drop-down list at the top, you can select either All fonts, or only one font. * These values are hardcoded in the script, but you can change them in line #25 (the definition of pointSize array) to whatever you want. Any font licensing restrictions if present.For each size, a paragraph of sample text is created.* The script makes a catalog of all the fonts available to InDesign creating 7 lines of sample text in different sizes.Īt the top, above the horizontal line, it displays the following information: The idea was inspired by this script written by John P. Next time try using Paragraph and Character Styles it's very powerful feature and gives you a lot of controls for text and fonts.Script for InDesign. You may refer to this link for more Adobe inDesign Scripting official documentation. Scripting for inDesign or any Adobe software is incredibly powerful and can make almost every thing automatically. Right click on the script name > Run script and the script will change all text to selected font size.Īctually this script can be modified for further customization.The color style did not exist, so create it. If the color does not exist, trying to get its name will generate an error. M圜olorA = ('Yellow') #Change the name of the color as you want Var myTextFrames = myDocument.textFrames Paste the following script to the newly created JaveScript document. In the opened location Create new JavaScript document and name it as you want, then Save it. Right Click on 'User' > Reveal in explorer. Open Menu Window > Utilities > Scripts Or Press Ctrl+Alt+F11 to open the scripts panel menu. I Couldn't think of any tool I can use other than using scripting. But unfortunately this dialogue cannot control text color. This Dialogue Box also gives you control on missing fonts in any document in case you have any. Then you can change all your fonts Or font weights assuming you're using multiple fonts and you want them all changed By Clicking on each font then choose your final font from Replace With: Panel.This will open a dialogue box with all your used fonts listed. Part #1: How to bulk change Font / Font Weight: To answer you question I had to break the answer to 3 Parts:

Make font box the size of font indesign