• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  A way to change text properties without touching source text? (scripting)

  Posted by Edward Clayton on October 10, 2022 at 9:54 pm

  Working on a script that involves text properties (tracking, leading, horizontal scaling, etc)

  Here is a snippet of my code:

      var src = layer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document");
      var srcText = src.value;
      srcText.horizontalScale = 0.0001;
      src.setValue(srcText);

  This works fine except it resets all of the style of the text to whatever the first character is (like in source text expressions).

  Is there a way to rewrite this so that I only change the horizontal scale of the text without touching the source text?

  Edward Clayton replied 3 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  October 11, 2022 at 12:56 am

  Unfortunately, I think that’s how it is.
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  Edward Clayton

  October 12, 2022 at 7:15 pm

  I figured as much, but thanks for the conformation!

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