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yon1313
yon1313
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March 28, 2019
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Change to font Weight (For example Arial-Bold)

  • March 28, 2019
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Hello,

Im using this code and im trying to change weight font in my text layer.

var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text");
var textDocument = textProp.value;
textDocument.font = "Arial-Bold";
textProp.setValue(textDocument);

But this does not Changing the font to the "Arial-Bold" font,

What did I do wrong?

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Correct answer Tomas Sinkunas

It's not Arial-Bold, but rather Arial-BoldMT

var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text");
var textDocument = textProp.value;
textDocument.font = "Arial-BoldMT";
textProp.setValue(textDocument);

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Tomas Sinkunas
Tomas SinkunasCorrect answer
Legend
March 28, 2019

It's not Arial-Bold, but rather Arial-BoldMT

var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text");
var textDocument = textProp.value;
textDocument.font = "Arial-BoldMT";
textProp.setValue(textDocument);
    yon1313
    yon1313Author
    Known Participant
    March 29, 2019

    Thanks for your answer!

    Yes it works good in this case,

    But what should it do in the other situations?

    like when i want the font to be "Arial-Narrow",

    and "Arial-NarrowMT" not working.

    So what is actually the method to work with weight font ?

    Tomas Sinkunas
    Tomas Sinkunas
    Legend
    March 29, 2019

    Well, all you have to do is:

    1. Set font you like manually.

    2. Run this command to see what it prints.

    3. Use this value in your script.

    var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text"); 
    var textDocument = textProp.value;
    alert(textDocument.font)
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