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  Reset next text horizontal scale

  Posted by Otávio Nascimento on February 5, 2023 at 12:56 am

  I’m using this script to change the text horizontal scale, but when I create another text in the comp, it set to the previous horizontal scale. How can I make changes to text and a new text will be in normal scale?

  function TextHorizScale(myLayer) {
  

      var myLayer = myLayer;
      var textProp = myLayer.property("Source Text");
      textDocument = textProp.value;
      textDocument.horizontalScale = 0.5;
   return textProp.setValue(textDocument);

  I tried this but didn’t work:

  var fixCharacter = app.project.activeItem.layers.addText("Fix Text");
  

  textReset(fixCharText);
  fixCharText.remove();
     function textReset(myLayer) {
                  var myLayer = myLayer;
                  var textProp = myLayer.property("Source Text");
                  textDocument = textProp.value;
                  textDocument.horizontalScale = 1;
                  return textProp.setValue(textDocument);
                  }

  Andrei Popa replied 3 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrei Popa

  February 6, 2023 at 7:53 am

  I am using the first part of your script and it works fine(Adobe After Effects 2022 and 2023). Text gets to 0.5 and the horizontal scale does not change for the next layer I am creating. Maybe the horizontal scale was set to 0.5 before you ran the script.

  However, some error that I see in your code is that you create a text layer with the variable name “fixCharacter” and then try to use it with “fixCharText”.

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