Link text layer font with expressions ?

[Andy Stokes]

Hi all,

Is there a way (with expressions??) to link the character font from one text layer to another ?

i.e : If I change the font in a master text layer, all others will change to the new font.

Thx,

Andy

[Filip Vandueren]

Nope, the font is part of the actual text contents,

but you can make keyframes for the “source text”-property and have the same text with different fonts,
then use an expression to choose the keyframe of each layer according to for instance a slider value on the master or a null layer.

[Filip Vandueren]

Well, I was wrong

[Mylenium]

Why not just multi-select the layers and change the font face for all of them at once? As long as a keyframe at a given time already exists, AE will even recognize these changes for the source text property. On the other hand it’s really a shame that AE does not offer a way to manipulate those properties via expression *sigh*

Mylenium

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