[Ahsan Amin]

This (<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>dynamicLinkGUID) didn’t work either actually, I had tried it before, the reason is I can’t find this value inside Photoshop script, anyways, I think your base idea of using “Convert to Editable Text” is more useful for this path as eventually all the translations and sizing are applied later in After Effect, Photoshop is just for kind of effects or in base case if nobody change sizes in AE, which is kind of 50/50 chance!

[Ahsan Amin]

Hi Filip,

Thanks for your response and it is also very helpful and gives me another direction.

However, looks like while running the script from aerender directly doesn’t actually convert it, Probably I need to use AppleScript to launch the AE and later convert all Photoshop layers to “Editable Texts”, kind of an extra step for me but would be worth it in the longer run.

Note that I am running my .jsx script in headless mode with the help of aerender, not with After Effect Script Menu. so I did currLayer.selected = true and then app.executeCommand(app.findMenuCommandId(“Convert to Editable Text”))and later app.project.save() but no errors and no effect if I do it via aerender. (Does work though if I run from file->script manually from After Effect Menu.

In my earlier implementation method: one thing I am still wondering how actually After Effect maintains the references of Photoshop Layers especially if the multiple layers have the same name, There should be some ID which is supposed to be the same in After Effect and Photoshop to relate between a Layer of Photoshop and a Layer of After Effect! But found none :(.. this could save me lots of trouble actually!