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Al Edwards replied to the discussion CenterMultiple Lines of Text Vertically While Ignoring Descenders in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:06:57 +0000

Reply to CenterMultiple Lines of Text Vertically While Ignoring Descenders

Thanks for the suggestions.

The invisible all caps layer sourceRectAtTime workaround is what I went with, but I had to change the horizontal scale on the all caps text to 80% to get the lines to break in the same place. The diff constant code didn’t adjust the anchor point based on the number of lines in the text box; it kept the layer in the same…

Al Edwards started the discussion CenterMultiple Lines of Text Vertically While Ignoring Descenders in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 21:12:39 +0000

CenterMultiple Lines of Text Vertically While Ignoring Descenders

I am trying to add an expression to my text layer anchor point to keep the text centered vertically regardless of how many lines of text there are. I don’t want to use sourceRectAtTime because the text moves vertically when there are descenders. I’m trying to use the fontSize and leading to find the center of the layer, but it’s not doing what I…