• Adobe After Effects

  Font Object for latin languages

  Posted by Tudor Baican on January 23, 2024 at 2:22 pm

  Hi Friends,

  i’m startet to play with the new Font Object functionality what was added in v24.

  My script should pick me randomly a latin font.

  So far so good, but how I can filter just for fonts how support the latin language?

  I tried <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>FontObject.writingScripts <font face=”inherit”>but </font>don’t<font face=”inherit”> relay unterstand the numbers value what </font>I<font face=”inherit”> get from that function.</font>

  <font face=”inherit”>Do you have an idea for that?</font>

  var myFonts = app.fonts.allFonts;
  var fontGroup = Math.floor(Math.random() * myFonts.length);
  var fontName = Math.floor(Math.random() * myFonts[fontGroup].length);
  var rFont = myFonts[fontGroup][fontName];
  alert(rFont.writingScripts);

  Walter Soyka replied 2 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  January 24, 2024 at 3:01 pm

  The numbers are enumerated values. (After Effects uses a lot of these.) Here’s some documentation:

  https://ae-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/other/fontobject.html#fontobject-writingscripts

  ae-scripting.docsforadobe.dev

  Font object — After Effects Scripting Guide 22.3.0 documentation

  Font object — After Effects Scripting Guide 22.3.0 documentation
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  Tudor Baican

  January 24, 2024 at 4:26 pm

  I know this list but don’t was sure how I assign the values.

  I found it out now 🙂

  
  
  12212 = CTScript.CT_ROMAN_SCRIPT
  12213 = CTScript.CT_JAPANESE_SCRIPT 
  12214 = CTScript.CT_TRADITIONALCHINESE_SCRIPT
  ....
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  Walter Soyka

  January 24, 2024 at 5:32 pm

  Don’t ever use the numbers (i.e., 12212) directly; use the enumerated value name instead (CTScript.CT_ROMAN_SCRIPT). That way, if the numbers ever change from one version of Ae to the next, your script won’t break.

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