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Expression to keep two text layers centered in comp and maintain space between
I’m creating phone Number localizations for 150 spots.
I’m testing running the ‘compsFromSpreadsheet4″ script to replace the phone number for all these different locals.
So far great, I can get the script to replace the number but the problem is some digits throw off the horizontal size of the phone number.
The phone number is paired with a text layer that has a URL that will remain the same.
So the layout is:
website.com 1-800-123-4567
the two text layers are centered in the comp.
Is there an expression that can maintain the space between the two text layers and repo them so they are centered in the comp, so that when I run the script the positions of these layers will automatically update and I don’t have to go into 150 comps to center everything?
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4 Replies
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I’d recommend you do this with a script. Either modify your text-replacement script, or create another one that you run afterwards to tidy up the positions of the text layers. The reason for using a script is that scripts have access to the actual dimensions of the text via sourceRectAtTime(), and expressions don’t.
Dan
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Thanks for the answer, I guess it’s manual work for me because I wouldn’t know how to script that.
So does that mean that there can’t be an expression that would reposition a text layer to maintain it’s right edge as the text is updated? -
Search this forum for the sampleImage hack. You can use it, for example, to find the left edge of a text layer’s text by starting at column x=0 and examining the layer in one-pixel columns from left to right, until you find a column with alpha greater than zero. It works, but it’s slow.
Seriously though, if performance is an issue, scripting is the way to do this.
Dan
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i’d try to put both the url and phone# in the same text layer with a few spaces in between.
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