• Adobe After Effects

  Scripting access to hidden text box information

  Posted by Jens Theisen on May 11, 2014 at 12:37 pm

  Have a look at the following screenshot:

  

  You notice that the anchor point is at zero (green arrow), but it’s visual representation (orange arrow) isn’t inside its bounding box (purple arrow).

  I figured that this can happen if we have bound text and modify the bounding box in certain ways.

  Obviously there is a piece of information missing from the property tree as visible in the interface:

  1. The width and height of the bounding box – those can be read with the scriping api as the TextDocument’s boxTextSize attribute and
  2. the position of the bounding box in relation to the anchor – where that is I don’t know, but as you can see in the screenshot, there is no apparent relationship between the two.

  So where do I get that second bit of information via scripting?

  In other words: How do I get where the text actually appears?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks in advance, Jens

  Jens Theisen replied 12 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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