Searching for design elements

You can search for design elements (e.g objects, texts, variables, colors, URIs).

You can search through the whole document at once or narrow the scope down to the current view, selection, or the current Fragment.

You can also select to include scripts, resources and function files in the search operation.

When you get an error message, for example in the StreamServer log file, an object ID is often provided. You can use the object ID to search for the object that caused the error in your document.

To search for design elements

1	From the View menu select Panels > Find (or press Ctrl+F). The Find panel opens.

2	Enter your search criteria. See the Find panel.

3	In the Find panel, click Find or press Enter.

4	View the results in the Results list at the bottom of the Find panel.

 

In the Find panel Results table, you can: • Click a column header to sort the results accordingly. • Select any cell of a returned result and edit its properties directly in the Properties panel. • Multi-select several returned results and edit their common properties directly in the Properties panel. • Select the upper left cell to select all results.

Font search strings

As an alternative to the pre-defined values, you can search for a font by providing a search string, with the following syntax:

font [;criterion]

See tables below for options as to what you can specify for font and [;criterion] respectively.

Font name
font	An explicit font family name, for example Arial or Verdana.
;	Search for any font family name.

criterion
size operator value	operator is one of the following: !, = , <, >, <=, >=, != value is the size in points. For example: size <= 10
size value	value is the size in points. For example: size 10 (same as size = 10)
value	value is the size in points. For example: 10 (same as size = 10)
bold	Search for bold font types.
not bold	Search for font types that are not bold. Alternative syntax: !bold
italic	Search for italic font types.
not italic	Search for font types that are not italic. Alternative syntax: !italic
superscript	Search for fonts whose text is superscripted.
not superscript	Search for fonts whose text is not superscripted.
subscript	Search for fonts whose text is subscripted.
not subscript	Search for fonts whose text is not subscripted.
scale operator value	operator is one of the following: !, = , <, >, <=, >=, != value is the horizontal scale applied to the font. For example: scale < 1.2
shift operator value	operator is one of the following: !, = , <, >, <=, >=, != value is the baseline shift applied to the text. For example: shift > 2

Font search string examples

Example 7

Search string to find all text with font Arial Bold Italic

Arial; Bold; Italic

 

Example 8

Search string to find all text with any font that has a size larger or equal to 14 points

; size >= 14

 

Example 9

Search string to find all superscripted text with font Verdana

Verdana; superscript

 

Example 10

Search string to find all text with font Verdana Bold, where text has baseline shift of less than 4

Verdana;Bold; shift < 4