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Text Style expressions not working?
Hey guys, so it was my understanding that in newer versions of Ae there’s now a TextStyle class? My Ae is up to date (v18.4.0) but every time I try to use any expressions I’ve found with these styling options I get errors. The following expression placed on the Source Text of a text layer gives me an error saying that ‘style’ in Class ‘TextProperty’ is missing or does not exist.
text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(25).setText("This is text")What I’m ultimately wanting to do is have different font sizes on different strings on the same text layer, just as you could do manually typing the text out, but thru expressions.
What am I doing wrong here?
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4 Replies
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My guess is that you have File > Project Settings > Expressions set to Legacy Extendscript. But in any case, you won’t be able to set more than one Font for a single text layer.
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You’re a legend Dan, thanks so much!! I knew something was awry…
As far as having multiple styles, what approach would you recommend? Once I call more than just one variable it gets angry about objects, which is doesn’t do if the variables are only strings..first = text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(25).setText("This is text");
second = text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(72).setText("This is bigger text");
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Unfortunately, with the current implementation, there’s no way you can use an expression to generate different styles for different characters within the same text layer. All characters end up with the same styling as the first character.
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Okay, thanks for the clarification! 😉
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