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“Space” Character is different than in other applications
Hi folks,
So I’m working on a project in After Effects CS6 (Windows), and I’m using the Impact Label font.
As you can see, all characters are supposed to be surrounded by a box in the chosen color. The letters themselves are transparent. The “space” character should just be a box, without any transparent parts, but in After Effects, all spaces just show completely transparent.
I’ve checked the font in Microsoft Word, Photoshop (CS6), and even in FontCreator: the space character should definately be an opaque box.
Is After Effects replacing it by it’s own version of the space character? Is there a workaround?
You can download the font here for testing. Let me now if it’s the same in AE CC.
Thanks in advance!
Lennert
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5 Replies
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That would be a cumbersome workaround for 100+ text layers…
If you take a look at the font download page, you can see this “box” is actually part of the font.
EDIT: I’ve tested another font with a non-blank space character: “Top Secret“.
AE just uses a blank space instead of the font-specific space character. Works fine in other applications though… -
have you tried imputing the character map’s number of space? alt+0160 ? It is still cumbersome but at least copying and pasting is faster than manually positioning rectangles.
Cassius Marques
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Cassius: Unfortunately, the Altcode didn’t work either… Same goes for copying the text from other applications.
Dave: Text needs to be editable, can’t go with stills. Also way to cumbersome, considering I need 100-200 perfectly aligned text layers.Could someone test this problem in AE CC? I’d like to know if Adobe fixed it. Some fonts to test: “Impact Label” and “Top Secret“.
I’m now resorting to using a nasty combination of parenting and expressions to create shape layers around the text. A real brain challenge to set up, but sort of semi-automatic when it’s finally working.
This workaround also doubles my layer count, since I need one shape layer for every text layer. I’m estimating it’ll end up being about 400 layers total. -
Same issue in CC2015.
A relatively lame workaround idea: Make two characters that don’t have any overlapping parts (such as . and +) and use negative tracking value to place them on top of each other. Select this pair copy it and paste it wherever you need a space character.
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@Kalle Kanisto: That’s actually a fairly good workaround. It sparked an even easier idea given the software I have access to:
I could use my font editor to remap the space character to some character that I don’t use, and perform a “find and replace all” script within After Effects.
Thanks to all! 🙂
Reported to Adobe, hopefully they take it seriously.
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