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Mars7272
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July 23, 2012
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AfterEffects Localization

  • July 23, 2012
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I am writing a localization script that will load in an XML with language strings to replace text in my AE composition. I need to be able to switch out font families. Is there a way to change font families through a script?

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Dan Ebberts
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Dan EbbertsCommunity Expert
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July 23, 2012

You can change the font of a text layer like this:

var myFontName = "MyriadPro-Regular";

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;

var myTextLayer = myComp.layer(1);

var mySourceText = myTextLayer.property("Text").property("Source Text");

var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;

myTextDoc.font = myFontName;

mySourceText.setValue(myTextDoc);

I'm not sure about font families.

Dan

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dfred23
Inspiring
July 27, 2012

You will probably need a conversion table to first read the current font settings from the text layer then use straight up conversions or regular expressions to extract the relevant parts ("Condensed, Light, Medium, Regular, Bold, etc.) to determine the size, style and weight of the new font.  Then set the value as Dan described.

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