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Inside indesign javascript scripting: how it is possible to change the color of a block of text instead the color of the bounding box of the block itself?
Because something like:
textFrame.fillColor = color;
would just change the color of the bounding box, not the text itself.
Because I raged so hard and the documentation is so poor and maybe even I myself will need it in future, I've decided to share knowledge by putting on a simple function to do it so:
My slower version:
function changeTextColor(textFrame, color) {
var i, j;
for (i = 0; i < textFrame.paragraphs.length; i++) {
p = textFrame.paragraphs[i];
for(j = 0; j < p.lines.length; j++) {
l = p.lines[j];
l.fillColor = color;
}
}
}
Suggested improved versions by @mrdomino:
textFrame.textColumns.everyItem().fillColor = color
textFrame.paragraphs.everyItem().fillColor = color without looping at all. Obviously everyItem() entails something looping somewhere, but it’s much more optimised and much faster than most loops you can make yourself.
Jan 18, 2020 at 19:47
textColumns instead of paragraphs. So you could just do textFrame.textColumns.everyItem().fillColor = color. If you know you want to color the entire text, including linked frames, then the fastest method would be textFrame.parentStory.fillColor() = color.
parentStory had a fillColor property (note: property, not method, so no brackets), though, that’s even easier.
Jan 18, 2020 at 20:52
textFrame.parentStory.fillColor = color