Get selected font from character panel

[Dan Ebberts]

The only way I can think of would be to add a temporary text layer to a comp, harvest the font name (which will be the one in the Character panel), and delete the layer:

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myLayer = myComp.layers.addText(“”);
var myText = myLayer.property(“ADBE Text Properties”).property(“ADBE Text Document”).value;
alert(myText.font);
myLayer.remove();

Dan