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Set font of paragraph text layer?
Been bangin’ my head against this one and finally decided to ask the forum. I’ve created a script that creates a certain sized paragraph text box. I also want to control the font and its size. How do I do that? I can’t seem to figure out how to call the font properties for the text box. Any suggestions?
Here’s my current script:
{
var proj = app.project;
var theComposition = proj.activeItem;
var paraText = theComposition.layers.addBoxText([910, 140], "ParagraphText");
var theTextLayer = theComposition.layers[1];
var dynamText = theTextLayer.property("Text").property("Source Text").expression = "/*Path of source text file*/ n $.evalFile('/PATH/OF/TEXT/FILE/text.txt') var1+var2+var3;dynamText;
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3 Replies
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Try this:
var sourceText = theTextLayer.property(“ADBE Text Properties”).property(“ADBE Text Document”);
var textDoc = sourceText.value;
textDoc.font = “ArialMT”;
theTextLayer.text.sourceText.setValue(textDoc);Dan
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Fantastic Dan, thank you. I was looking through Adobe’s script reference and saw that .property(“ADBE Text Properties”). section, but couldn’t figure out how to get it to work for my current code.
Do you know how to get the postscript name of the font? Just typing in “Helvetica” doesn’t seem to work, and I notice the postscript name is different from the actual name that appears in the character palette.
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One way would be to use the font in a text layer, select the layer, and run this script:
{
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myTextLayer = myComp.selectedLayers[0];
var mySourceText = myTextLayer.property(“ADBE Text Properties”).property(“ADBE Text Document”);
var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;
alert(myTextDoc.font);
}Dan
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