Saving Object Styles in IDCS2?

[Andrew_Kavanagh@adobeforums.com]

I am creating a series of Drop Shadows as Object Styles.
In the submenu I can see that I can Load Object Styles
how about Saving a group of Object Styles to Load later or to let others Load?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Make an example of each and export as a snippet.

Or save a copy of your document with the content stripped out so you can load them from that copy.

Or make a template with them in.

Note that if you go the snippet route and the receiving document already has a style of the same name, the existing style in the document will override what comes in with the snippet.

Dave

[Andrew_Kavanagh@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Dave.
So I can only save them with the original document that has all the drop shadow examples?
Wish I could just save a set of Drop Shadow Object Styles so can just upload the Object Styles
without having to open the document as well.

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

without having to open the document as well.




All the style palettes have a load command that loads styles from another document without opening this.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Strange how these things happen. I just got into this situation: I had a complex grouped object in my document that I wanted to adjust, so I copied and pasted the object to another temporary document where I did quite a lot of work, including creating a bunch of new object styles and modifying an existing one.

So, when I finished, I copied and pasted back into the original document.

The problem was the object style I'd modified. How to get that into the original document? The "proper" way to do it involves saving that temporary document somewhere and then Loading styles from it. But that just goes against the grain (I keep finding these files all over the place with names like "temp.indd" or "test.indl" etc.).

So, I wrote a script. The script requires that you select an object that has an object style applied to it, and then it redefines that style to match the style of the same name in the other document (or back document if you have more than two open -- it checks with you before proceeding in this case). Here's the script:

//DESCRIPTION: Import definition of Object Style of selected document from back document

if (app.documents.length < 2) { beep(); exit(); } if (app.documents.length > 2) {
beep();
if (!confirm("More than two documents open. Continue?")) {
exit();
}
}
if (app.documents[0].selection.length == 0) {
beep(); alert("Please select an object and try again."); exit();
}
transferStyle(app.documents[0], app.documents[-1])

function transferStyle(target, source) {
try {
var myOstyleName = target.selection[0].appliedObjectStyle.name;
} catch(e) {
beep(); alert("Current selection doesn't have an applied object style."); beep();
}
var myOstyle = source.objectStyles.item(myOstyleName);
if (myOstyle == null) {
beep(); alert("Source document doesn't have an object style named: " + myOstyleName); exit();
}
var targO = target.objectStyles.item(myOstyleName);
var sourceO = source.objectStyles.item(myOstyleName);
targO.properties = sourceO.properties;
targO.anchoredObjectSettings.properties = sourceO.anchoredObjectSettings.properties;
targO.baselineFrameGridOptions.properties = sourceO.baselineFrameGridOptions.properties;
targO.storyPreferences.properties = sourceO.storyPreferences.properties;
targO.textFramePreferences.properties = sourceO.textFramePreferences.properties;
targO.textWrapPreferences.properties = sourceO.textWrapPreferences.properties;
}

Be warned: I haven't tested all the error paths, but they look right.

Dave

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Hmm. That description line could do with an edit:

//DESCRIPTION: Import definition of Object Style of selection from back document

That's better!

Dave