Macro for setting font style and color

[Dan Ebberts]

There isn’t currently an easy way, but you could do it with a script and a template project that had pre-defined text layers – one for each style. The script would put your new text into the appropriate layer and delete (or make invisible) the rest.

Note that you wouldn’t be able to have text that changed styles (multiple fonts, for example) within any give text layer.

Dan

[Bill Russell]

Well, what I wanted to do was select some text in a layer, activate a macro that applied particular attributes to that selected text. What is happening now is I am doing several credit rolls, AND the clients are sending significant updates as (not versioned, unfortunately) full text files for EACH roll. It is a bear to cut and paste in a whole new credit roll text set, then start from scratch selecting a header and formatting it (color, size and other font/style attributes), then select the name below the headert, manually do that, then select the next header, and on and on and on… EACH time. And do that for EACH credit roll text file that comes in.

Is the answer a glorifed way of saying I’m pretty much stuck doing it this way?

“THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA” –

And more…

[Dan Ebberts]

If you’re talking about changing the attributes of only some of the text in a text layer, then I think you’re out of luck.

However, if you’re formatting an entire line and each line is a seperate text layer, then you can probably automate it (assuming you know the entire set of formatting options ahead of time and have set up template text layers for each of those options).

Dan