• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Using source text to link two text layers, maintaining font weight

  Posted by Tyler Jack on March 25, 2020 at 11:59 am

  Hi there,

  I’ve got a comp with 3 text layers, Text 1 & 2 are separated elements of the same sentence, and Text 3 is the sentence in full (broken down to animated elements). I’ve used the following expression to write Text 3:

  a=thisComp.layer(“TEXT 1 :”).text.sourceText;
  b=thisComp.layer(“TEXT 2″).text.sourceText;

  text.sourceText=a+” “+b

  It works a treat, however, TEXT 2 needs to be bold, with TEXT 1 being regular. Is there a way I can append the following to define the font styles of a and b…

  a = style.setFont(“HalisR-Medium”)
  b = style.setFont(“HalisR-Black”)

  I’m new to expressions so any advice is hugely appreciated!

  Thanks,
  TJ

  Tyler Jack replied 6 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrei Popa

  March 25, 2020 at 5:34 pm

  You can define the font styles of Text 1 and Text 2. But Text 3 will not have 2 different text styles. It’s not yet possible to set multiple font styles to the same layer by expression. Hopefully Adobe will make that possible in a future update.

  Andrei
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  Tyler Jack

  March 26, 2020 at 9:50 am

  That’s a shame – thanks for your response. Hopefully they add it in, would be a useful feature!

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