Scripting for Smart Styles

Various aspects of Smart Styles can be scripted using JavaScript.

Examples are shown in this article.

Note: Knowledge of InDesign scripting is required.

Smart Styles extends the Asset and Library object.

Additional asset method:

• Property: applySmartStyle
• Parameters: Selection or (list of) PageItem(s)
• Returns: nothing
• What it does: Applies the asset as Smart Styles to the page item(s).

// This example applies the first item of the first library as Smart
// Style to the first page item of the active document
var myLib = app.libraries.item(0).assets.item(0);
var myItems = [app.activeDocument.pageItems.item(0)];
myLib.applySmartStyle( myItems );

Additional library property:

• Property: smartStyles
• Value type: Boolean
• Access: read/write
• What it is: Toggles the library between an Object and Smart Styles library.

// The script toggles the first library from Smart Styles to
// Object library or the other way around
if( app.libraries.item(0).smartStyles == false )
app.libraries.item(0).smartStyles = true;
else
app.libraries.item(0).smartStyles = false;