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Write-On with Font/Text
Hello all,
I have a simple question, but I suspect I am out of luck. Is there a simple way to write-on (ie trace) an existing font that’s been placed with the type tool? I have a whole bunch of small chunks of text that I need to write-on and I really don’t want to mess around with reveal masks etc. Maybe a third-party plug (OS X) that does this if AE can’t do it natively.
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Thanks for the tips. This is for a really quick project that has lots of little single-digit numbers and names that I’d like to use the effect for which is why I’d like to avoid using anything more complicated that slapping a plug or expression on it.
I’d prefer to use a handwriting font, but have ordered a Wacom tablet and will most-likely do it by hand with Vector Paint. Oh well.
Seems like a common request. I’m suprised Adobe doesn’t have a solution.
Anyone know if Motion does this? I could build a little library of clips and bring them into AE.
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>Seems like a common request. I’m suprised Adobe doesn’t have a solution.< Well, how do you think it should work? Sorry, but all technical aspects speak against it. You would have to dig into the font file, find all vertices and their tangents and from that calculate an intermediate path to use for a path based wipe/ stroke. After that you'd still have to determine which stroke gets drawn first (if a glyph consists of multiple strokes). I simply don't think it's feasible given that there is a bazillion fonts on this planets, some of them drawing from left to right, right to left, top to bootom with a plethora of curves and strokes and variations. At best I could think of some simple linear/ radial wipe, that uses a charcter's bounding box and interprets it as the wipe area, but beyond that I wouldn't keep my hopes up. Mylenium [Pour Myl
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