• Adobe After Effects

  Align Text Left Scripting

  Posted by Matthew Joal on March 18, 2011 at 12:38 am

  I’m new to scripting with After Effects and I’m having troubles doing the simplest thing. I got most of my program to work just fine, however, when I used the built-in text replace function it changes my text from left aligned to center aligned. I need to set my text layer to left align again after the text it changed.

  Can anyone please help me? I know this is very basic, I just can’t find anything in the scripting guide that will help.

  My last resort option is to set the anchor point of the text field but I would rather just set the alignment.

  Here is the replace function:

  replaceTextInLayer(app.project.item(99).layer(8), “Original”, “New”)

  I just want to left align this text layer.

  app.project.item(99).layer(8)

  Thanks in advance for your help!

  Brian Berneker replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brian Berneker

  June 9, 2011 at 1:55 am

  I have the same problem (right align actually):

  I create a text object, set it right aligned and all is well.
  I then duplicate the object so that it has the same font, alignment etc., and use an expression to get the source text from the first text object. Once I do this, the new layer suddenly changes its alignment to “centered” and is uneditable!

  Solution/Workaround PLOX?

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