/SetStoryComposer

Quickly set all stories in your InDesign document to use your desired composer. Helpful for working with Indic and other complex scripts.

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SetStoryComposer: Quickly Assign A Composer to All of Your Document's Stories

This InDesign script allows the user to set all stories in a given document to use the selected composer. This can be quite useful for translating and typesetting documents using complex non-Latin scripts (Indic/Devengari, etc.)

Image demonstrating errors in displaying Bengali text without using the Adobe World Ready composer.

Installation

To install this script, download the SetStoryComposer.jsx file and place it in your Scripts Panel directory.

For more information about where to locate the Scripts Panel directory on your OS, see Adobe's help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/scripting.html

Activating the Script

To run the script after installing, navigate to the Scripts Panel:
Window > Utilities > Scripts

Then, expand the User directory in the Scripts Panel and click 'ConvertAllStories'. A dialog box will ask you to select the desired composer.

Licensing

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.