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Changing the font of the First Name and The Second name
I’ve been trying to work out a way to type a name, and have the first name in one style and the surname in another.. I’ve tried to mash two expressions I found on-line together.. but they don’t appear to be working.. this is the error
TypeError: cannot read property ‘setFont” of Undefined
this is the expression
txt = text.sourceText.value;
splt = txt.split(” “);
str = splt[0][0].style.setFont(“ESPCircular-Bold”) + splt[0].style.setFont(“ESPCircular-Book”);
str += txt.substr(splt[0].length).toUpperCase()
could someone please cast their eyes over this and see what the problem is.. I’m getting this error message.. could it be that I’m mixing languages ?? legacy and Java ???
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4 Replies
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Use 2 different layers one for the first name and another for the surname. Then use a position expression to link them together.
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Is there no way to do this with an expression.. I’m trying to keep my layers to a minimum.
And I want to copy and paste names into the comp
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It’s a bummer, but AE doesn’t have the ability to have two different fonts in one text layer through expressions, yet. If you’re trying to keep “layers” to a minimum and not necessarily compositions, you could do what Chris suggests. Create a Comp that has the names in the style you want, use an expression to read the comp name and split it up, then just duplicate that comp for as many of the names as you want.
It’s not exactly what you want, but it’s a work around until that functionality is available. I’m sure there are other ways, too.
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Thanks for your help…
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