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Limiting a text editing script to a range of characters
Hello there I created this script with great help from Dan Ebberts some months ago. It changes the font style of a selected text layer in regular intervals. It’s a very useful script but I need it to apply the style change without messing with font size. I use this script to emphasize the price of a product in a promo. The idea is to keep the currency symbol smaller than the numbers while still applying the effect to all the characters, including the “$” symbol. I think I read somewhere trying to affect a range of characters in a text layer is not possible with Extendscript. Is this true? Would it be better having the “$” symbol in a separate layer? I still could use a variation that leaves de “$” untouched for the whole thing while on the same text layer. If someone can direct me on how to isolate the first space in the index for such an effect. Thanks!!
{app.beginUndoGroup("Jump Text");
var jumpText = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];
var fonts = ["DINNextLTPro-Regular","DINNextLTPro-Italic","DINNextLTPro-Bold"];
var jumpTextProp = jumpText.property("Source Text");
var jumpTextDocument = jumpTextProp.value;var t = jumpText.inPoint;
var idx = 0; while (t < jumpText.outPoint){
jumpTextDocument.font = fonts[idx];
jumpTextProp.setValueAtTime(t,jumpTextDocument);
t += .25; idx = (idx+1)%fonts.length;
}
app.endUndoGroup();}
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6 Replies
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I think a separate text layer for the “$” is pretty much your only option.
Dan
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Ok, I thought so. What I’m trying to do now is applythis effect to two layers at.once. I created variables for both layers selected and their sunsequent source text variables for each one. Then I didn’t know how to modify the If statement to manage both sets of data at once so I duplicated the if statement and made it handle the variables for.the second layer but when I ran the script AE froze everytime. Any thoughts on how to work around this?
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I haven’t tested this, but I’d set it up like this:
app.beginUndoGroup("Jump Text");
var fonts = ["DINNextLTPro-Regular","DINNextLTPro-Italic","DINNextLTPro-Bold"];
var myLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];
var jumpText,jumpTextProp,jumpTextDocument,t,idx;
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){
jumpText = myLayers[i];
jumpTextProp = jumpText.property("Source Text");
jumpTextDocument = jumpTextProp.value;
t = jumpText.inPoint;
idx = 0;
while (t < jumpText.outPoint){
jumpTextDocument.font = fonts[idx];
jumpTextProp.setValueAtTime(t,jumpTextDocument);
t += .25;
idx = (idx+1)%fonts.length;
}
}
app.endUndoGroup();
Dan
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It works Dan, thank you. However, when generating the keyframes it assumes the kerning of the first character in the string and applies to the rest. So when I edit the text to something like 1.990 it gives all characters the kerning of the “1”. This is awful since I’d need to adjust the kerning differently for different cyphers so they look good. But as before I think respecting the given kerning to a text string is not possible for a script right?
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As far as I know, that’s correct.
Dan
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Ok Dan thanks again.
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