Set the auto leading by script.

[Dan Ebberts]

I don’t know of any way to do that by script.

[Andrei Popa]

Thanks Dan!

That coming from you pretty much assures me there is not a way to do that 😀

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Andrei, I kind of did on hack in the past, which might help you as well:
1. Apply Line Spacing from Text Animator.

2. Grab whole text height by sourceRect.

3. Get number of lines in the text, by finding line breaks.

4. Either set expression or set value by script, to calculate approximate value needed.

Not 100% sure if this will do what you need to, but I used this approach to space out text in a fixed height container, when number of lines varies (different thing, though)

[Filip Vandueren]

I guess the script can’t add it to the layer via an expression ?

[Andrei Popa]

Adding to the expression may be the only way. Some texts have complicated expressions and not that easy to modify but I’ll have to give it a try.

I think the best solution would be to put the value on the last row in every expression. Then the script could split the expression, get the last row and put it into something like style.setText(“last row”).setAutoLeading(true).

Thanks for the suggestion.